“Nirvana is not the blowing out of the candle. It is the extinguishing of the flame because day is come.”

I have lost my dewdrop , cries the flower to the morning sky that lost all its stars.

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.

I have lost my dewdrop , cries the flower to the morning sky that lost all its stars.

Reach high, for stars lie hidden in you. Dream deep, for every dream precedes the goal.

Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance

Love adorns itself; it seeks to prove inward by outward beauty.

If I can’t make it through one door, I’ll go through another door- or i’ll make a door. Something terrific will come no matter how dark the present.

The highest education is that which does not merely give us information but makes our life in harmony with all existence.

Love is an endless mystery, because there is no reasonable cause that could explain it.

Everything comes to us that belongs to us if we create the capacity to receive it.

I have spent many days stringing and unstringing my instrument while the song I came to sing remains unsung.

Not hammer-strokes, but dance of the water, sings the pebbles into perfection.

We cross infinity with every step; we meet eternity in every step.

Love’s gift cannot be given, it waits to be accepted.

Don’t limit a child to your own learning, for she was born in another time.

The stars are not afraid to appear like fireflies.

What does a caged bird know about freedom?

Don’t be deceived beloved no one really knows what they’re doing.

I remind myself what I desire in another is myself undiscovered.

Darling remember we are all the same with different coverings.

So many holes, but piece by piece we become whole.

We live only to die yet we’re dying to live.

The only thing that fills the void is pulling things out of it.

Everything seems to be a design – a mixture of prejudice and injustice – the limbo of silence.