Your freedom when it loses its fetters becomes itself the fetter of a greater freedom.

Your life is an island separated from all other islands and continents. Regardless of how many boats you send to other shores or how many ships arrive upon your shores, you yourself are an island separated by its own pains, secluded in its happiness

Cover me with soft earth, and let each handful be mixed With seeds ofjasmine, lilies, and myrtle; and when they Grow above me and thrive on my body's element they will Breathe the fragrance of my heart into space.

When the earth shall claim your limbs, then shall you truly dance.

Work is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of those who work with joy.

Your confidence in the people, and your doubt about them, are closely related to your self-confidence and your self-doubt.

Science and religion are in full accord, but science and faith are in complete discord.