I discovered the secret of the sea in meditation upon a dewdrop.

Let me, O let me bathe my soul in colours; let me swallow the sunset and drink the rainbow.

If your knowledge teaches you not to rise above human weakness and misery and lead your fellow man on the right path, you are indeed a man of little worth and will remain such till Judgment Day.

You are good when you are one with yourself. Yet when you are not one with yourself you are not evil. For a divided house is not a den of thieves; it is only a divided house. And a ship without rudder may wander aimlessly among perilous isles yet sink not to the bottom.

Your house is your larger body. It grows in the sun and sleeps in the stillness of the night; and it is not dreamless. Does not your house dream, and dreaming, leave the city for grove or hilltop?

Generosity is not giving me that which I need more than you do, but it is giving me that which you need more than I do.

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.