Your life is an island separated from all other islands and continents. Regardless of how many boats you send to other shores or how many ships arrive upon your shores, you yourself are an island separated by its own pains, secluded in its happiness

When you are sorrowful, look again.

Seek not the depths of your knowledge with staff or sounding line. For self is a sea boundless and measureless.

I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art.

And when you crush an apple with your teeth, say to it in your heart: Your seeds shall live in my body, And the buds of your tomorrow shall blossom in my heart, And your fragrance shall be my breath, And together we shall rejoice through all the seasons.

When you reach the heart of life you shall find beauty in all things, even in the eyes that are blind to beauty.

Education sows not seeds in you, but makes your seeds grow.