I am ashamed of my emptiness," said the Word to the Work. "I know how poor I am when I see you," said the Work to the Word.

Other animals ran only when they had a reason, but the horse would run for no reason whatever, as if to run out of his own skin

A lamp can only light another lamp when it continues to burn in its own flame.

Plunge into the deep without fear, with the gladness of April in your heart.

The realization of our soul has its moral and its spiritual side. The moral side represents training of unselfishness, control of desire; the spiritual side represents sympathy and love. They should be taken together and never separated. The cultivation of the merely moral side of our nature leads us to the dark region of narrowness and hardness of heart, to the intolerant arrogance of goodness; and the cultivation of the merely spiritual side of our nature leads us to a still darker region of revelry in intemperance of imagination.

Blessed is he whose fame does not outshine his truth.

Mistakes live in the neighbourhood of truth and therefore delude us.