“Let your eye be chaste, your hand faithful, your tongue truthful and your heart enlightened.”

Thus hath it been sent down from the heaven of the Will of your Lord, the Lord of Revelation.

O Son of Spirit! My first counsel is this: Possess a pure, kindly and radiant heart, that thine may be a sovereignty ancient, imperishable and everlasting.

Dedicate the precious days of your lives to the betterment of the world

I bear witness, O my God, that Thou hast created me to know Thee and to worship Thee. I testify, at this moment, to my powerlessness and to Thy might, to my poverty and to Thy wealth. There is none other God but Thee, the Help in Peril, the Self-Subsisting.

Should prosperity befall thee, rejoice not, and should abasement come upon thee, grieve not, for both shall pass away and be no more.

A kindly tongue is the lodestone of the hearts of men. It is the bread of the spirit, it clotheth the words with meaning, it is the fountain of the light of wisdom and understanding…

O SON OF MAN! My calamity is My providence, outwardly it is fire and vengeance, but inwardly it is light and mercy. Hasten thereunto that thou mayest become an eternal light and an immortal spirit. This is My command unto thee, do thou observe it.

Holy words and pure and goodly deeds ascend unto the heaven of celestial glory.

The world’s equilibrium hath been upset through the vibrating influence of this most great, this new World Order. Mankind’s ordered life hath been revolutionized through the agency of this unique, this wondrous System – the like of which mortal eyes have never witnessed.

Be anxiously concerned with the needs of the age ye live in, and center your deliberations on its exigencies and requirements.

Do not be content with showing friendship in words alone, let your heart burn with loving kindness for all who may cross your path.

The utterance of God is a lamp, whose light is these words: Ye are the fruits of one tree, and the leaves of one branch. Deal ye one with another with the utmost love and harmony… So powerful is the light of unity that it can illuminate the whole earth.

Every age hath its own problem, and every soul its particular aspiration.

Religion without science is superstition. Science without religion is materialism.

It is not for him to pride himself who loveth his own country, but rather for him who loveth the whole world.

O ye rich ones on earth! The poor in your midst are My trust; guard ye My trust, and be not intent only on your own ease.

To be an artist means never to avert one’s eyes.

The ultimate truth is like the flavour of an apple which you can’t see with the eye or hear with the ear.

When we conquer ourselves, then everything will be conquered: oneself, others, and all the sense objects as well, coming in by way of the eyes, ears, nose, tongue and body — it will all get conquered like this.

Don’t think that only sitting with the eyes closed is practice. If you do think this way, then quickly change your thinking.

If we experienced life through the eyes of a child, everything would be magical and extraordinary.

An opportunity to honor the legacy of the lives drawn into the lines in my face, the broad of my nose.

I started out being a stand up and writing my own material. That took me to Talk Soup, where I was writing and performing for TV.

and I get refill number three or four and the wine is making my bones loose and it’s giving my hair a red sheen and my breasts are blooming and my eyes feel sultry and wise and the dress is water.