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Life without liberty is like a body without spirit.

Safeguarding the rights of others is the most noble and beautiful end of a human being.

Build of your imaginings a bower in the wilderness ere you build a house within the city walls.

The astronomer may speak to you of his understanding of space, but he cannot give you his understanding.

As the strings of a lute are apart though they quiver the same music.

You are far, far greater than you know - and all is well.

If you would indeed behold the spirit of death, open your heart wide unto the body of life.

Love is the only flower that grows and blossoms without the aid of the seasons

You need not fear, my love,
for never have the stars on high
told what they know.

What is word knowledge but a shadow of wordless knowledge?

Then a lawyer said, But what of our laws, master? And he answered: 'You delight in laying down laws. Yet you delight more in breaking them.

For their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.

A little while, a moment of rest upon the wind, and another woman shall bear me.

I hope I will live long and be able to do some things worthy of giving to you who is giving so much to me.

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

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

A seeker of silences am I, and what treasure have I found in silences that I may dispense with confidence?

Beauty is a thing of might and dread.
Like the tempest she shakes the earth beneath us and the sky above us.

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

You may judge others only according to your knowledge of yourself.

The real test of good manners is to be able to put up with bad manners pleasantly.

Shall the day of parting be the day of gathering?
And shall it be said that my eve was in truth my dawn?

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

You are good when you strive to give of yourself.

NIGHTINGALE The nightingale does not make his nest in a cage lest slavery be the lot of its chicks. BW-ST-122

It takes two of us to discover truth: one to utter it and one to understand it.

And let the winds of the heavens dance between you.

He who has not looked on Sorrow will never see Joy

He who has not been bitten by the serpents of light and snapped at by the wolves of darkness will always be deceived by the days and the nights.

Fill each other's cup but drink not from one cup.

Is not the beautiful moon, that inspires poets, the same moon which angers the silence of the sea with a terrible roar?

For to stay, though the hours burn in the night, is to freeze and crystallize and be bound in a mould.

Coming generations will learn equality from poverty, and love from woes.

A bigot is a stone-deaf orator.

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

It were wiser to speak less of God, Whom we cannot understand, and more of each other, whom we may understand.

Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love.

If your heart is a volcano, how shall you expect flowers to bloom?

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.

Speak not of peoples and laws and
Kingdoms, for the whole earth is
My birthplace and all humans are
My brothers.

Oh, heart, if one should say to you that the soul perishes like the body, answer that the flower withers, but the seed remains.

Sadness is but a wall between two gardens.

It is not a garment I cast off this day, but a skin that I tear with my own hands.

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

For love is sufficient unto love.

But you are life and you are the veil.

The silence of aloneness reveals to their eyes their naked selves and they would escape.

Let not the waves of the sea separate us now, and the years you have spent in our midst become a memory.

life unfolds itself in mysteries ways.

What are your possessions but things you keep and guard for fear you may need them tomorrow?

I have yet to meet an ignorant man whose roots are not embedded in my soul.

Remembrance is a form of meeting.
Forgetfulness is a form of freedom.

Your house shall be not an anchor but a mast
It shall not be a glistening film that covers a wound, but an eyelid that guards the eye.

The soul walks not upon a line, neither does it grow like a reed.

A great singer is he who sings our silences

For affliction has opened my eyes,
and tears given me sight.
Grief has taught me the language of hearts.

Is not dread of thirst when your well is full, the thirst that is unquenchable?

Your body is the harp of your soul and it is yours to bring forth sweet music from it or confused sounds.

In the summer heat the reapers say, We have seen her dancing with the autumn leaves, and we saw a drift of snow in her hair.

You may chain my hands, you may shackle my feet; you may even throw me into a dark prison; but you shall not enslave my thinking, because it is free!

Love and Doubt are not on speaking terms

How often have you sailed in my dreams. And now you come in my awakening, which is my deeper dream.

Here love begins to render the prose of Life into hymns and canticles of praise

only love and death change all things.

My loneliness was born when men praised my talkative faults and blamed my silent virtues.

Your clothes conceal much of your beauty, yet they hide not the unbeautiful.

When you are joyous, look deep into your heart and you shall find it is only that which has given you sorrow that is giving you joy.

What is fear of need but need itself?

Self is a sea boundless and measureless.

Exaggeration is truth that has lost its temper.

Pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.

I am the infinite sea, and all worlds are but grains of sand upon my shore.

Your hearts know in silence the secrets of the days and the nights.

Drink not from this cup unless you forget the past and the future, for happiness is naught but the moment." And

DEVIL Remember, one just man causes the Devil greater affliction than a million blind believers. WM-ST-62

The veil that clouds your eyes shall be lifted by the hands that wove it,

In your winter you deny your spring,

And when his wings enfold you yield to him,
Though the sword hidden among his pinions may wound you.

Shall I come to you, a boundless drop to a boundless ocean.

My friend, it was but a song of love out of a poet's heart, sung by every man to every woman.

I AM IGNORANT of absolute truth. But I am humble before my ignorance and therein lies my honor and my reward.

Where are you now, my beloved? Do you hear my weeping
From beyond the ocean? Do you understand my need? Do you know the greatness of my patience?

I have never agreed with my other self wholly. The truth of the matter seems to lie between us.

Follow your heart. Your heart is the right guide in everything big

Travel and tell no one, live a true love story and tell no one, live happily and tell no one, people ruin beautiful things.

But let there be no scales to weigh your unknown treasure.

Hearts that are united through the medium of sorrow will not be separated by the glory of happiness. Love

Your daily life is your temple and your religion.

Work is love made visible.

The breath of life is in the sunlight and the hand of life is in the wind.

Your fear of death is but the trembling of the shepherd when he stands before the king whose hand is to be laid upon him in honour.

If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. If they don't, they never were.

One may not reach the dawn by the path of the night.

For to be overmindful of your debt is to doubt his generosity who has the free-hearted earth for mother, and God for father.

One's own religion is after all a matter between oneself and one's Maker and no one else's.

What is it to die but to stand naked in the wind and to melt into the sun?

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.

How mean am I when life gives me gold and I give you silver, and yet I deem myself generous.

And since you are a breath in God's sphere, and a leaf in God's forest, you too should rest in reason and move in passion.

All our words are but crumbs that fall down from the feast of the mind.