Whatever we treasure for ourselves separates us from others; our possessions are our limitations.

The birth and death of leaves is part of that greater cycle that moves among the stars.

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

You can't cross a sea by merely staring into the water.

It means that God's Creation has not its source in any necessity; it comes from his fullness of joy; it is his love that creates, therefore in Creation is his own revealment.

Days are coloured bubbles that float upon the surface of fathomless nights.

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.