The Prophet (Almustafa)

"You are good when you are fully awake in your speech, yet you are not evil when you sleep."

"Say not, 'I have found the truth,' but rather, 'I have found a truth.'"

"Generosity is not in the giving of abundance, but in the giving from scarcity."

"Your fear is but the twitching of the wings of the bird called Progress."

"And when one of you falls down he falls for those behind, a caution against the stumbling stone."

"He alone is great who has turned the wheel of his fatigue and his suffering into wisdom."

"Even as the loop in the lute depends upon the wooden board, so God depends upon your patience."

"When you love you should not say, 'God is in my heart,' but rather, 'I am in the heart of God.'"

"If you reveal your secrets to the wind, you should not blame the wind for revealing them to the trees."

"Let there be spaces in your togetherness, and let the winds of the heavens dance between you."

"You will continue to have challenges that seem insurmountable until you change your perspective."

"Forget not that justice is sometimes cruel, yet it is merciful in its cruelty."

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

"Your own soul is nourished when you are kind; but it is destroyed when you are cruel."

"Knowledge that leads not to action is a disease."

"For thought is a bird of space, that in a cage of words may indeed unfold its wings but cannot fly."

"All these things shall love do unto you that you may know the secrets of your heart, and in that knowledge become a fragment of Life's heart."

"There are those among you who seek the talkative man because they themselves are afraid of silence."

"Much of your pain is self-chosen. It is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals your sick self."

"The lust for comfort murders the passion of the soul."

"But let there be no scales to weigh your unknown treasure; and seek not the value of your worth by denying it in others."

"And this same flower whose seeds are the joy of the bee, is to the spider a nesting place."

"To understand the heart and mind of a person, begin not with their reasoning; begin with their play."

"The teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you to enter the house of his wisdom but leads you to the threshold of your own mind."

"Yesterday is but today's memory and tomorrow is today's dream."

"And in the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures."

"Your body is the temple of your soul. Enter into that temple with reverence."

"The strongest of you must sometimes weep to know that you are human."

"Do not lose yourself in the thicket of other people's theories."

"As a single leaf turns not yellow but with silent knowledge of the whole tree, so the wrong-doer cannot do wrong without the hidden will of you all."