Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time like dew on the tip of a leaf.
We gain freedom when we have paid the full price.
All that is not given is lost.
I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy.
Every child comes with the message that God is not yet discouraged of humanity.
Facts are many, but the truth is one.
Trees are Earth's endless effort to speak to the listening heaven.
In the drowsy dark cave of the mind, dreams build their nest with fragments dropped from day's caravan.
Time is a wealth of change, but the clock in its parody makes it mere change and no wealth.
Man's abiding happiness is not in getting anything but in giving himself up to what is greater than himself, to ideas which are larger than his individual life, the idea of his country, of humanity, of God.
Let the dead have the immortality of fame, but the living the immortality of love.
The water in a vessel is sparkling; the water in the sea is dark. The small truth has words which are clear; the great truth has great silence.
Life, moral or physical, is not a completed fact, but a continual process, depending for its movement upon two contrary forces, the force of resistance and that of expression.
The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.
What is Art? It is the response of man's creative soul to the call of the Real.
Never be afraid of the moments; thus sings the voice of the ever-lasting.
A thing is only completely our own when it is a thing of joy to us.
Life is given to us, we earn it by giving it.
A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it.
Taking shelter in the dead is death itself, and only taking all the risk of life to the fullest extent is living.
Faith is the bird that feels the light and sings when the dawn is still dark.
In our desire for eternal life we pray for an eternity of our habit and comfort, forgetting that immortality is in repeatedly transcending the definite forms of life in order to pursue the infinite truth of life.
He who is too busy doing good finds no time to be good.
To be outspoken is easy when you do not wait to speak the complete truth.
Night's darkness is the bag that bursts with the gold of the dawn.
Those who own much have much to fear.
That I exist is a perpetual surprise which is life.
Religion, like poetry, is not a mere idea, it is expression. The self-expression of God is in the endless variety of creation [...].
Life, like a child, laughs, shaking its rattle of death as it runs.
Beauty is truth's smile when she beholds her own face in a perfect mirror.
Nationality is respectable only when it is on the defence, when it is waging wars of liberation it is sacred; when those of domination it is accursed.
The highest education is that which does not merely give us information but makes our life in harmony with all existence.
The fish in the water is silent, the animals on the earth is noisy, the bird in the air is singing. But man has in him the silence of the sea, the noise of the earth and the music of the air.
Love is the ultimate meaning of everything around us. It is not a mere sentiment; it is truth; it is the joy that is at the root of all creation.
We gain freedom when we have paid the full price for our right to live.
Love's overbrimming mystery joins death and life. It has filled my cup of pain with joy.
He who wants to do good knocks at the gate; he who loves finds the gate open.
Love's gift cannot be given, it waits to be accepted.
Love gives beauty to everything it touches.
You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water. Don't let yourself indulge in vain wishes.
Music fills the infinite between two souls.
The fountain of death makes the still waters of life play.
Whenever our life is stirred by truth, it expresses energy and comes to be filled, as it were, with a creative ardor.
If you cry because the sun has gone out of your life, your tears will prevent you from seeing the stars.
Those who have everything but thee, my God, laugh at those who have nothing but thyself.
If you shut the door to all errors, truth will be shut out.
Age considers; youth ventures.
Whatever we treasure for ourselves separates us from others; our possessions are our limitations.
