Said one oyster to a neighboring oyster, "I have a very great pain within me. It is heavy and round and I am in distress." And the other oyster replied with haughty complacence, "Praise be to the heavens and to the sea, I have no pain within me. I am well and whole both within and without." At that moment a crab was passing by and heard the two oysters, and he said to the one who was well and whole both within and without, "Yes, you are well and whole; but the pain that your neighbor bears is a pearl of exceeding beauty."

I AM IGNORANT of absolute truth. But I am humble before my ignorance and therein lies my honor and my reward.

Only when you drink from the river of silence shall you indeed sing.

And you receivers - and you are all receivers - assume no weight of gratitude, lest you lay a yoke upon yourself and upon him who gives. Rather rise together with the giver on his gifts as on wings; For to be overmindful of your debt, is to doubt his generosity who has the free hearted earth for mother, and God for father.

A hermit is one who renounces the world of fragments that he may enjoy the world wholly and without interruption.

Love possesses not nor will it be possessed, for love is sufficient unto love.

Yesterday is ever jealous of...tomorrow.