The Prophet

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

"And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair."

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

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

"I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy."

"For all things are echoes of eternity, and all time is but the peering of timeless moments through the windows of time."

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

"Work is love made visible."

"For life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one."

"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."

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

"Generosity is not in the giving of much, but in the giving at the right time."

"Once I said to myself, 'Here is one who sins.' But I no longer say it, because I understand."

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

"Teach your children to question, to wonder, and to dream."

"Of all that is sad, this is the saddest—that one should fear."

"How can you govern others, you who have not yet learned to govern yourself?"

"You may forget the one with whom you have laughed, but you will not forget the one with whom you have wept."

"Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair."

"And think not you can direct the course of love, for love, if it finds you worthy, directs your course."