The Prophet

"You pray in your distress and in your need; would that you might pray also in the fullness of your joy and in your days of abundance."

"A friend is a field which you sow with love and reap with thanksgiving."

"And you come to him with your whole heart."

"Your friend is your needs answered."

"Life would be dark as neither night nor day if it were not for the things you illumine."

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

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

"If he is indeed wise he does not bid you enter the house of his wisdom, but rather leads you to the threshold of your own mind."

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

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

"Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart."

"If either your sails or your rudder be broken, you can but toss and drift, or else be held at a standstill in the midst of the sea."

"Your reason and your passion are the rudder and the sails of your seafaring soul."

"Reason is a powder keg in the minds of fools."

"You rest not except in oblivion, and you dream not except in dreams."

"And in your waking hours, and in your sleep, your spirit walks upon the earth and mingles with the earth, singing."

"For that which seems most feeble and bewildered in you is but the least in power."

"I alone am left now to be yet in your path and in your dwelling."

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

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

"And a transgression is but a torch dropped in the path of the prudent as a warning."

"Who among you would tear his son and send him into the wilderness for shame?"

"Pity is not judgment."

"You cannot separate the just from the unjust and the good from the wicked; for they stand together before the face of the sun even as the black thread and the white are woven together."

"And life is the love of sequence. Else what is life?"

"For in truth it is life that lives in all things."

"Trust the physician, and drink his remedy in silence and tranquility."

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

"And the master's voice is but a little ripple upon the dark, deep sea."

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