Verily the kindness that gazes upon itself in a mirror turns to stone, and a good deed that calls itself by tender names becomes the parent to a curse.

We fear death, yet we long for slumber and beautiful dreams.

Many of us spend our whole lives running from feeling with the mistaken belief that you can not bear the pain. But you have already borne the pain. What you have not done is feel all you are beyond that pain.

If I extend an empty hand and in retrieving it and finding it still empty, I feel disappointment, that is foolishness; yet if I extend a hand which is full and yet find no one to receive it, then that is hopelessness.

He is short-sighted who looks only on the path he treads and the wall on which he leans.

Have you not heard of the man who was digging in the earth for roots and found a treasure?

A truly religious man does not embrace a religion; and he who embraces one has no religion.