You may give them your love, but not your thoughts. For they have their own thoughts.

Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding. It is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals your sick self. Therefore, trust the physician and drink his remedy in silence and tranquility.

Seek not the depths of your knowledge with staff or sounding line. For self is a sea boundless and measureless.

Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.

These things he said in words. But much in his heart remained unsaid. For he himself could not speak his deeper secret.

Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.

Those who give you a serpent when you ask for a fish, may have nothing but serpents to give.