Pain and foolishness lead to great bliss and complete knowledge,
For eternal wisdom created nothing under the sun in vain.
If you cannot work with love,
But only with distaste,
It is better that you should leave your work.
Knowledge of the self is the mother of all knowledge,
So it is incumbent on me to know myself,
To know it completely,
To know its minutiae,
Its characteristics,
Its subtleties and its very atoms.
Heart is a step from what is obvious and well-known toward what is arcane and concealed.
Say not,
I have found the truth,
But rather I have found a truth.
I existed from all eternity and,
Behold,
I am here,
And I shall exist till the end of time,
For my being has no end.
The obvious is that which is never seen until someone expresses it simply.
Nor shall derision prove powerful against those who listen to humanity or those who follow in the footsteps of divinity,
For they shall live forever.
Many a doctrine is like a windowpane.
We see truth through it,
But it divides us from truth.
The most pitiful among man is he who turns his dreams into silver and gold.
Perplexity is the beginning of knowledge.
No man can reveal to you nothing but that which already lies half asleep in the dawning of your knowledge.
Coming generations will learn equality from poverty and love from woes.
Faith is an oasis in the heart which will never be reached by the caravan of thinking.
Exaggeration is truth that has lost its temper.
Of life's two chief prizes,
Beauty and truth,
I found the first in a loving heart and the second in a labourer's hand.
Generosity is not giving me that which I need more than you do,
But it is giving me that which you need more than I do.
Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.
Time has been transformed and we have changed.
It has advanced and set us in motion.
It has unveiled its face,
Inspiring us with bewilderment and acceleration.
What is this world that is hastening me toward I know not what,
Viewing me with contempt?
When we turn to one another for counsel,
We reduce the number of our enemies.
I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge,
Silence to be ignorance and affection to be art.
Wisdom ceases to be wisdom when it becomes too proud to weep,
Too grave to laugh and too selfish to seek other than itself.
The eye of a human being is a microscope which makes the world seem bigger than it really is.
What difference is there between us save a restless dream that follows my soul but fears to come near you?
Wisdom stands at the turn in the road and calls upon us publicly but we consider it false and despise its adherence.
Much of your pain is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals your sick self.
The person you consider ignorant and insignificant is the one who came from God that he might learn bliss from grief and knowledge from gloom.
The just is close to the people's heart but the merciful is close to the heart of God.
You pray in your distress and in your need would that you might also pray in the fullness of your joy and in your days of abundance.
The lust for comfort,
That stealthy thing that enters the house a guest and then becomes a host and then a master.
Most people who ask for advice from others have already resolved to act as it pleases them.
A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.
Rebellion without truth is like spring in a bleak,
Hairy desert.
Advance and never halt for advancing is perfection.
Advance and do not fear the thorns in the path for they draw only corrupt blood.
If the other person injures you,
You may forget the injury.
If you injure him,
You will always remember.
When you work,
You are a flute through whose heart the whispering of the hours turns to music.
Which of you would be a reed,
Dumb and silent,
When all else sings together in unison?
You give but little when you give of your possessions.
It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.
When love becomes to you,
Follow him.
Though his ways are hard and steep,
And when his wings unfold you yield to him,
Though the sword hidden among his pinions may wound you.
Hollow the body as a temple to comeliness and sanctify the heart as a sacrifice to love.
Love recompenses the adorers.
Love possesses not,
Nor will it be possessed,
For love sufficient unto love.
Love is trembling happiness.
