The Prophet

"And he alone is great who turns the voice of the wind into a song made sweeter by his own loving."

"Whenever you enter a temple, take with you your whole self."

"Your daily life is your temple and your religion."

"The same bosom cannot hold both cynicism and faith."

"Are they not the same wounds that are cleansing and healing?"

"The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain."

"For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed."

"Let there be spaces in your togetherness."

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

"Sing and dance together and be joyous, but let each one of you be alone, even as the strings of a lute are alone though they quiver with the same music."

"Stand together yet not too near together: For the pillars of the temple stand apart."

"Give your hearts, but not into each other's keeping. For only the hand of Life can contain your hearts."

"Love one another, but make not a bond of love: let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls."

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

"For life and labour were born of necessity, and what is born of necessity is not labour but travail."

"But if you in your pain serve only yourself, you cook but one meal."

"And what is it to work with love? It is to weave the thread with threads drawn from your heart."

"Work is love made visible."

"You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth."

"You may give them your love but not your thoughts, for they have their own thoughts."

"Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself."

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

"Time seems not to give or take away. It merely shows us who we are."

"The vainest among you is he who deplores the infirmities of others and forgets his own."

"When you are joyous, look deep into your heart and you shall find it is only that which has given you sorrow that is giving you joy."

"Half of what I say is meaningless, but I say it so that the other half may reach you."

"Even as the strings of a lute are alone though they quiver with the same music."

"We are all like the moon, and there is a dark side of us that nobody should see."

"Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars."

"The teacher who walks in the shadow of the temple, among his followers, gives not of his wisdom but rather of his faith and his lovingness."