Beauty is simply reality seen with the eyes of love

If religion, instead of being the manifestation of a spiritual ideal, gives prominence to scriptures and external rites, then does it disturb the peace more than anything else.

The human soul is on its journey from the law to love, from discipline to liberation, from the moral plane to the spiritual.

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

Grant me that I may not be a coward, feeling your mercy in my success alone; but let me find the grasp of your hand in my failure.

It's far better to make people angry than to make them ashamed.

The water vessel, taken as a vessel only, raises the question, "Why does it exist at all?" Through its fitness of construction, it offers the apology for its existence. But where it is a work of beauty it has no question to answer; it has nothing to do, but to be.