The fish in the water is silent, the animals on the earth is noisy, the bird in the air is singing. But man has in him the silence of the sea, the noise of the earth and the music of the air.

The weak can be terrible because they try furiously to appear strong.

Joy is there everywhere; it is superfluous, unnecessary; nay, it very often contradicts the most peremptory behests of necessity. It exists to show that the bonds of law can only be explained by love; they are like body and soul. Joy is the realisation of the truth of oneness, the oneness of our soul with the world and of the world-soul with the supreme lover.

A dewdrop is a perfect integrity that has no filial memory of its parentage.

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.

God, the Great Giver, can open the whole universe to our gaze in the narrow space of a single land.

Death belongs to life as birth does The walk is in the raising of the foot as in the laying of it down