When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.

When you have solved all the mysteries of life you long for death, for it is but another mystery of life.

I once heard a learned man say, "Every evil has its remedy, except folly. To reprimand an obstinate fool or to preach to a dolt is like writing upon the water. Christ healed the blind, the halt, the palsied, and the leprous. But the fool He could not cure."

My yearning is my cup, my burning thirst is my drink, and my solitude is my intoxication; I do not and shall not quench my thirst. But in this burning that is never extinguished is a joy that never wanes.

Limited love asks for possession of the beloved, but the unlimited asks only for itself.

Your house shall be not an anchor but a mast It shall not be a glistening film that covers a wound, but an eyelid that guards the eye.

God has placed in each soul an apostle to lead us upon the illumined path. Yet many seek life from without, unaware that is within them.