Languages are jealous sovereigns, and passports are rarely allowed for travellers to cross their strictly guarded borders.

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

To find God, you must welcome everything.

I will sit in the pupil of your eyes and that will carry your sight into the heart of the things

You have made me known to friends whom I knew not. You have given me seats in homes not my own. You have brought the distant near and made a brother of the stranger... When one knows You, then there is no alien, and no door is shut.

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

In the mountain, stillness surges up to explore its own height In the lake, movement stands still to contemplate its own depth.