“Stray birds of summer come to my window to sing and fly away. And yellow leaves of autumn, which have no songs, flutter and fall there with a sigh.”

I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy.

The traveler has to knock at every alien door to come to his own, and one has to wander through all the outer worlds to reach the innermost shrine at the end.

On the seashore of endless worlds children meet.

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 biggest changes in a women’s nature are brought by love; in man, by ambition

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

Let me not pray to be sheltered from dangers, but to be fearless in facing them.

Most people believe the mind to be a mirror, more or less accurately reflecting the world outside them, not realizing on the contrary that the mind is itself the principal element of creation.

I will sit in the pupil of your eyes and that will carry your sight into the heart of the things

The real frienship is like fluorescence, it shines better when everything has darken.

You smiled and talked to me of nothing and I felt that for this I had been waiting long.

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

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

Some day I shall sing to thee in the sunrise of some other world, I have seen thee before in the light of the earth, in the love of man.

Beauty is simply reality seen with the eyes of love.

Let me light my lamp , says the star, And never debate if it will help to remove the darkness