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

These things he said in words. But much in his heart remained unsaid. For he himself could not speak his deeper secret.

Trust in dreams, for in them is hidden the gate to eternity.

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.

Tell your secret to the wind, but don't blame it for telling the trees.

Like sheaves of corn it gathers you unto itself. It threshes you to make you naked. It sifts you to free you from your husks. It grinds you to whiteness. It kneads you until you are pliant. And then it assigns you to its sacred fire, that you may become sacred bread for God's sacred feast. All these things shall love do unto you that you may know the secrets of your heart, and in that knowledge become a fragment of Life's Heart.

The longing for paradise is paradise itself.