And you receivers - and you are all receivers - assume no weight of gratitude, lest you lay a yoke upon yourself and upon him who gives. Rather rise together with the giver on his gifts as on wings; For to be overmindful of your debt, is to doubt his generosity who has the free hearted earth for mother, and God for father.

The longing for paradise is paradise itself.

In every winter's heart there is a quivering spring, and behind the veil of each night there is a shining dawn.

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

Knowledge of the self is the mother of all knowledge. So it is incumbent on me to know my self, to know it completely, to know its minutiae, its characteristics, its subtleties, and its very atoms.

Our anxiety does not come from thinking about the future, but from wanting to control it.

The veil that clouds your eyes shall be lifted by the hands that wove it.