You have your brush, you have your colors, you paint the paradise, then in you go.
Since we cannot change reality, let us change the eyes which see reality.
What is love? It is not simply compassion, not simply kindness. In compassion there are two: the one who suffers and the one who feels compassion. In kindness there are two: the one who gives and the one who receives. But in love there is only one; the two join, unite, become inseparable. The I and the you vanish. To love means to lose oneself in the beloved.
I hope for nothing. I fear nothing. I am free.
My soul comes from better worlds and I have an incurable homesickness of the stars.
The only thing I know is this: I am full of wounds and still standing on my feet.
True teachers are those who use themselves as bridges over which they invite their students to cross; then, having facilitated their crossing, joyfully collapse, encouraging them to create their own.
God changes appearances every second. Blessed is the man who can recognize him in all his disguises. One moment he is a glass of fresh water, the next, your son bouncing on your knees or an enchanting woman, or perhaps merely a morning walk.
By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired.
Be always restless, unsatisfied, unconforming. Whenever a habit becomes convenient, smash it! The greatest sin of all is satisfaction.
As long as there are flowers and children and birds in the world, have no fears: everything will be fine.
The real meaning of enlightenment is to gaze with undimmed eyes on all darkness.
A person needs a little madness, or else they never dare cut the rope and be free.
The landscape affects the human psyche - the soul, the body and the innermost contemplations - like music. Every time you feel nature deeper you resonate better with her, finding new elements of balance and freedom.
All my life one of my greatest desires has been to travel-to see and touch unknown countries, to swim in unknown seas, to circle the globe, observing new lands, seas, people, and ideas with insatiable appetite, to see everything for the first time and for the last time, casting a slow, prolonged glance, then to close my eyes and feel the riches deposit themselves inside me calmly or stormily according to their pleasure, until time passes them at last through its fine sieve, straining the quintessence out of all the joys and sorrows.
What a strange machine man is! You fill him with bread, wine, fish, and radishes, and out comes sighs, laughter, and dreams.
Since we cannot change reality, let us change the eyes which see reality," says one of my favorite Byzantine mystics. I did this when a child; I do it now as well in the most creative moments of my life.
There is no harsher means of punishment, than to answer malice with kindness.
The doors of heaven and hell are adjacent and identical.
Go as far as you can. Go further than you can!
I was happy, I knew that. While experiencing happiness, we have difficulty in being conscious of it. Only when the happiness is past and we look back on it do we suddenly realize - sometimes with astonishment - how happy we had been.
To succeed, you must first believe you can.
I am a weak, ephemeral creature made of mud and dream. But I feel all the powers of the universe whirling within me.
In order to succeed, we must first believe that we can.
Time is round, and it rolls quickly.
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