All things in this creation exist within you and all things in you exist in creation; there is no border between you and the closest things, and there is no distance between you and the farthest things, and all things, from the lowest to the loftiest, from the smallest to the greatest, are within you as equal things.

Tortoises can tell you more about the road than hares.

Enthusiasm is a volcano on whose top never grows the grass of hesitation.

He who understands you is greater kin to you than your own brother. For even your own kindred neither understand you nor know your true worth.

Art is a step from what is obvious and well-known toward what is arcane and concealed.

The very strength that protects the heart from injury is the strength that prevents the heart from enlarging to its intended greatness within. The song of the voice is sweet, but the song of the heart is the pure voice of heaven.

For what is prayer but the expansion of your self into the living ether?