Friendship with the ignorant is as foolish as arguing with a drunkard.

Half of what I say is meaningless; but I say it so that the other half may reach you.

He who understands you is greater kin to you than your own brother. For even your own kindred neither understand you nor know your true worth.

And how shall you punish those whose remorse is already greater than their misdeeds?

Your thought describes laws, courts, judges, punishments. Mine explains that when man makes a law, he either violates it or obeys it. If there is a basic law, we are all one before it. He who disdains the mean is himself mean. He who vaunts his scorn of the sinful vaunts his disdain of all humanity.

The ageless melody, unheard, heals; the healing vision, unseen, leads; the true leaders, immortal, know...

Those to whom worshiping is a window, to open but also to shut, have not yet visited the house of their souls whose windows are open from dawn to dawn.