“Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.”

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.

The small wisdom is like water in a glass, clear, transparent, pure. The great wisdom is like the water in the sea: dark, mysterious, impenetrable.

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

Come oh come ye tea-thirsty restless ones -the kettle boils, bubbles and sings, musically.

Let me not beg for the stilling of my pain, but for the heart to conquer it.

Faith is the bird that feels the light and sings when the dawn is still dark.

By plucking her petals you do not gather the beauty of the flower.

The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.

I seem to have loved you in numberless forms, numberless times, In life after life, in age after age, forever.

The path of minimalism gives you the freedom to explore yourself.

Freedom is the greatest fruit of self-sufficiency.

I freed a thousand slaves I could have freed a thousand more if only they knew they were slaves.

War is father of all, and king of all. He renders some gods, others men; he makes some slaves, others free.

To know how to free oneself is nothing; the arduous thing is to know what to do with one’s freedom.

We have no right to believe that freedom can be won without struggle.

Freedom means you are unobstructed in living your life as you choose. Anything less is a form of slavery.

A constitution, as important as it is, will mean nothing unless the people are yearning for liberty and freedom.