A lamp can only light another lamp when it continues to burn in its own flame.
... let us unite, not in spite of our differences, but through them. For differences can never be wiped away, and life would be so much the poorer without them. Let all human races keep their own personalities, and yet come together, not in a uniformity that is dead, but in a unity that is living.
A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it.
Great calm, generous detachment, selfless love, disinterested effort: these are what make for success in life. If you can find peace in yourself and can spread comfort around you, you will be happier than an empress.
The greatest distance in this World is not that between living and death, it is when I am just before you, and you don't know that I Love You.
Unless you have found God in your own soul, the whole world will seem meaningless to you.
All that is not given is lost.
Love is the only reality and it is not a mere sentiment. It is the ultimate truth that lies at the heart of creation.
Clouds come floating into my life from other days no longer to shed rain or usher storm but to give colour to my sunset sky.
The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.
Love's gift cannot be given, it waits to be accepted.
Whatever we treasure for ourselves separates us from others; our possessions are our limitations.
The human soul is on its journey from the law to love, from discipline to liberation, from the moral plane to the spiritual.
Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time like dew on the tip of a leaf.
Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance.
To be outspoken is easy when you do not wait to speak the complete truth.
Art awakens a sense of real by establishing an intimate relationship between our inner being and the universe at large, bringing us a consciousness of deep joy.
Inspiration follows aspiration.
Compliments win friends, honesty loses them.
We live in the world when we love it.
The roots below the earth claim no rewards for making the branches fruitful.
Praise shames me, for I secretly beg for it.
We are hidden in ourselves, like a truth hidden in isolated facts. When we know that this One in us is One in all, then our truth is revealed.
I believe in a spiritual world - not as anything separate from this world - but as its innermost truth. With the breath we draw we must always feel this truth, that we are living in God.
Death is not extinguishing the light; it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come.
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