The Prophet (Almustafa)

"When your friend speaks his mind you fear not the 'nay' in your own mind, nor do you withhold the 'ay.'"

"And there is one among you who eats when he is hungry and drinks when he is thirsty, and calls it virtue."

"You are good when you are fully awake in your speech."

"You are good when you strive to give of yourself."

"But you are not evil when you seek gain for yourself."

"Every day you may wring from her all the earnings of your content."

"To love life through labor is to be intimate with life's inmost secret."

"And what is it to work with love? It is to charge all things you fashion with a breath of your own spirit."

"Even the ox lowing in the fields sings a song with the angels."

"Eating is another of your sacred acts."

"When you kill a beast say to him in your heart: 'By the same power that takes you, I too am taken, and my blood shall not be spilled in vain.'"

"He alone is great who turned the voice of the wind into a song made sweeter by his own loving."

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

"To understand the heart and mind of a person, begin not with his reason but with his habit."

"Pity the nation that is full of beliefs and empty of religion."

"You talk when you cease to be at peace with your thoughts."

"Offense is a mockery of your wisdom."

"A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle."

"You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give."

"The master's spirit is not in the work of his hands, but in his heart."

"Verily the lust for comfort murders the passion of the soul, and then walks grinning in the funeral."

"Your fear is mostly a phantom, more grotesque than reality itself."

"And ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation."

"Think you the master feels himself exalted by the service of his servants?"

"You were born together, and together you shall be forevermore."

"Fill each other's cup but drink not from one cup."

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

"The vain boasts of your knowledge and the less you know of yourselves the more you discourse upon him; and the blind are they who speak of him most."

"Your children are not your children. They come through you but they belong to life itself."

"You cannot say, 'Go there,' without the risk that they go blind."