If you would behold the spirit of death, open your heart wide unto the body of life. For life and death are one, even as the river and sea are one.

He who does not prefer exile to slavery is not free by any measure of freedom, truth and duty.

A fox looked at his shadow at sunrise and said, “I will have a camel for lunch today.” And all morning he went about looking for camels. But at noon he saw his shadow again-and he said, “A mouse will do.

Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother.

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.

That which seems most feeble and bewildered in you is the strongest and most determined. Is it not your breath that has erected and hardened the structure of your bones?

Inspiration is in seeing a part of the whole with the part of the whole in you.