Faith is the bird that feels the light when the dawn is still dark.

Emancipation from the bondage of the soil is no freedom for the tree.

You can’t cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water.

Trees are the earth’s endless effort to speak to the listening heaven.

The flower which is single need not envy the thorns that are numerous.

Bigotry tries to keep truth safe in its hand with a grip that kills it.

To be outspoken is easy when you do not wait to speak the complete truth.

Every child comes with the message that God is not yet discouraged of man.

Don’t limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time.

Beauty is truth’s smile when she beholds her own face in a perfect mirror.

Every difficulty slurred over will be a ghost to disturb your repose later on.

Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time like dew on the tip of a leaf.

What is Art? It is the response of man’s creative soul to the call of the Real.

A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it.

Let us not pray to be sheltered from dangers but to be fearless when facing them.

Everything comes to us that belongs to us if we create the capacity to receive it.

Your idol is shattered in the dust to prove that God’s dust is greater than your idol.

Death is not extinguishing the light; it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come.

Gray hairs are signs of wisdom if you hold your tongue, speak and they are but hairs, as in the young.

Nirvana is not the blowing out of the candle. It is the extinguishing of the flame because day is come.