A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.

The obvious is that which is never seen until someone expresses it simply.

Say not, 'I have found the truth,' but rather, 'I have found a truth.'

What the soul knows is often unknown to the man who has a soul. We are infinitely more than we think.

But if in your fear you would seek only love's peace and love's pleasure, then it is better for you that you cover your nakedness and pass out of love's threshing-floor, into the seasonless world where you shall laugh, but not all of your laughter, and weep, but not all of your tears.

There is a space between man's imagination and man's attainment that may only be traversed by his longing.

Let there be spaces in your togetherness

The lights of stars that were extinguished ages ago still reaches us. So it is with great men who died centuries ago, but still reach us with the radiations of their personalities.

Strange that creatures without backbones have the hardest shells.

In battling evil, excess is good; for he who is moderate in announcing the truth is presenting half-truth. He conceals the other half out of fear of people's wrath.

The significance of a man is not in what he attains, but rather what he longs to attain.

Said a skunk to a tube-rose, "See how swiftly I run, while you cannot walk nor even creep." Said the tube-rose to the skunk, "Oh, most noble swift runner, please run swiftly!"

Yet has not Man wept at the sounds? And are not his tears eloquent understanding?

No lower can a man descend than to interpret his dreams into gold and silver.

And when you have reached the mountain top, then you shall begin to climb.

All that spirits desire, spirits attain.

For what is it to die but to stand naked in the wind and to melt into the sun? And when the earth shall claim your limbs, then shall you truly dance.

An eye for an eye, and the whole world would be blind.

Yes, there is a Nirvanah; it is leading your sheep to a green pasture, and in putting your child to sleep, and in writing the last line of your poem

Do not fear the thorns in your path, for they draw only corrupt blood.

The appearance of things changes according to the emotions; and thus we see magic and beauty in them, while the magic and beauty are really in ourselves.

The smallest act of kindness is worth more than the greatest intention.

Perplexity is the beginning of knowledge.

The optimist sees the rose and not its thorns; the pessimist stares at the thorns, oblivious to the rose.

A root is a flower that disdains fame.

Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair, but manifestations of strength and resolution.

I would not exchange the laughter of my heart for the fortunes of the multitudes.

joy and sorrow are inseparable. . . together they come and when one sits alone with you . . remember that the other is asleep upon your bed.

When you reach the end of what you should know, you will be at the beginning of what you should sense.

The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain.

If I accept the sunshine and warmth, then I must also accept the thunder and lightning.

One day you will ask me which is more important? My life or yours? I will say mine and you will walk away not knowing that you are my life.

Love... it surrounds every being and extends slowly to embrace all that shall be.

If you reveal your secrets to the wind, you should not blame the wind for revealing them to the trees.

Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.

Say not, 'I have found the truth,' but rather, 'I have found a truth.'

Spiritual awakening is the most essential thing in man's life, and it is the sole purpose of being. Is not civilization, in all its tragic forms, a supreme motive for spiritual awakening?

Your reason and your passion are your rudder and sails of your seafaring soul, if either your sails or your rudder be broken, you can but toss and drift, or else be held at a standstill in mid-seas. For reason, ruling alone, is a force confining; and passion, unattended, is a flame that burns to its own destruction.

They say: 'If a man knew himself, he would know all mankind.' I say: 'If a man loved mankind, he would know something of himself.

When life does not find a singer to sing her heart she produces a philosopher to speak her mind.

We wanderers, ever seeking the lonelier way, begin no day where we have ended another, and no sunrise finds us where left by sunset. Even while the earth sleeps we travel. We are the seeds of that tenacious plant, and it is in our ripeness and our fullness of heart that we are given to the wind to be scattered.

Say not, 'I have found the truth,' but rather, 'I have found a truth.' Say not, ' I have found the path of the soul.' Say rather, 'I have met the soul walking upon my path.' For the soul walks upon all paths. The soul walks not upon a line, neither does it grow like a reed. The soul unfolds itself, like a lotus of countless petals.

You cannot laugh and be unkind at the same time

Words are timeless. You should utter them or write them with a knowledge of their timelessness.

Tell your secret to the wind, but don't blame it for telling the trees.

Love descends upon our souls by the will of God and not by the demand or the plea of the individual.

For to be idle is to become a stranger unto the seasons, and to step out of life’s procession that marches in majesty and proud submission towards the infinite.

Real beauty lies in the spiritual accord that is called love which can exist between a man and a woman....

For what is evil but good tortured by its own hunger and thirst?

Solitude has soft, silky hands, but with strong fingers it grasps the heart and makes it ache with sorrow.