113 quotes found
“if you cannot but weep when your soul summons you to prayer, she should spur you again and yet again, though weeping, until you shall come laughing”
“Our God, who art our winged self, it is thy will in us that willeth.It is thy desire in us that desireth. It is thy urge in us that would turn our nights, which are thine, into days which are thine...”
“The lust for comfort kills the passions of the soul.”
“When you pray you rise to meet in the air those who are praying at that very hour, and whom save in prayer you may not meet.”
“The timeless in you is aware of life's timelessness. And knows that yesterday is but today's memory and tomorrow is today's dream.”
“The breath of life is in the sunlight and the hand of life is in the wind.”
“Stand together yet not too near together:For the pillars of the temples stand apart,And the oak tree and the cypress grow not in each others shadow.”
“You may forget the one with whom you have laughed, but never the one with whom you have wept.”
“To belittle, you have to be little.”
“Verily the kindness that gazes upon itself in a mirror turns to stone,And a good deed that calls itself by tender names becomes the parent to a curse”
“You may judge others only according to your knowledge of yourself.”
“It is not a garment I cast off this day, but a skin that I tear with my own hands.Nor is it a thought I leave behind me, but a heart made sweet with hunger and with thirst.”
“Ready am I to go, and my eagerness with sails full set awaits the wind.Only another breath will I breathe in this still air, only another loving look cast backward,”
“My loneliness was born when men praised my talkative faults and blamed my silent virtues.”
“My friend, I am not what I seem. Seeming is but a garment I wear-a care-woven garment that protects me from thy questionings and thee from my negligence. The I in me, my friend, dwells in the house...”
“And a man said, speak to us of self-knowledge.and he answered, saying:Your hearts know in silence the secrets of the days and the nights.But your ears thirst for the sound of your heart's knowledge...”
“Self is a sea boundless and measureless.”
“I cannot tarry longer.The sea that calls all things unto her calls me”
“You would measure time the measureless and the immeasurable.You would adjust your conduct and even direct the course of your spirit according to hours and seasons.Of time you would make a stream up...”
“And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair”
