Pity it is we drowse too soon Pity it is we fall asleep Ere our song encompass the height Ere our hand inherit the deep

But now I have learned to listen to silence. To hear its choirs singing the song of ages, chanting the hymns of space, and disclosing the secrets of eternity.

If in the twilight of memory we should meet once more,we shall speak again together and you shall sing to me a deeper song. And if our hands should meet in another dream we shall build another tower in the sky.

It is not the image you would see nor the song you would hear, but rather an image you see though you close your eyes and a song you hear though you shut your ears.

In the depth of my soul there is a wordless song.

He who defines his conduct by ethics imprisons his song-bird in a cage.

The song of the voice is sweet, but the song of the heart is the pure voice of heaven.

In the depth of my soul there is A wordless song - a song that lives In the seed of my heart. It refuses to melt with ink on Parchment; it engulfs my affection In a transparent cloak and flows, But not upon my lips.

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

But if you love and must needs have desires, let these be your desires: To melt and be like a running brook that sings its melody to the night. To know the pain of too much tenderness. To be wounded by your own understanding of love; And to bleed willingly and joyfully. To wake at dawn with a winged heart and give thanks for another day of loving; To rest at noon hour and meditate love's ecstasy; To return home at eventide with gratitude; And then to sleep with a prayer for the beloved in your heart and a song of praise on your lips.

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. When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.

Truth is a deep kindness that teaches us to be content in our everyday life and share with the people the same happiness.

Rebellion without truth is like spring in a bleak, arid desert.

Many a doctrine is like a window pane. We see truth through it but it divides us from truth.

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

When you work you fulfil a part of earth's furthest dream, assigned to you when that dream was born. And in keeping yourself with labour you are in truth loving life, And to love life through labour is to be intimate with life's inmost secret.

An exaggeration is a truth that has lost its temper

Always you have been told that work is a curse and labour a misfortune. But I say to you that when you work you fulfill a part of earth's furthest dream, assigned to you when that dream was born, and in keeping yourself with labour you are in truth loving life...

He who does not prefer exile to slavery is not free by any measure of freedom, truth and duty.

They have exiled me now from their society and I am pleased, because humanity does not exile except the one whose noble spirit rebels against despotism and oppression. He who does not prefer exile to slavery is not free by any measure of freedom

Many are the places of worship, but few indeed are those who worship in Spirit and in truth.

He who does not seek advice is a fool. His folly blinds him to Truth and makes him evil, stubborn, and a danger to his fellow man.

Persecution cannot harm him who stands by Truth. Did not Socrates fall proudly a victim in body? Was not Paul stoned for the sake of the Truth? It is our inner selves that hurt us when we disobey it, and it kills us when we betray it.

If your knowledge teaches you not the value of things, and frees you not from the bondage to matter, you shall never come near the throne of Truth.

God has made many doors opening into truth which He opens to all who knock upon them with hands of faith.

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

Oh, heart, if one should say to you that the soul perishes like the body, answer that the flower withers, but the seed remains.

Your soul is oftentimes a battlefield, upon your reason and your judgment wage war against your passion and your appetite.

Your body is the harp of the soul.

I am bored with gabbers and their gab; my soul abhors them. . . . Is there any place where there is no traffic in empty talk? Is there on this earth one who does not worship himself talking?

The soul is an embryo in the body of Man, and the day of death is the Day of awakening, for it is the Great era of labour and the rich Hour of creation.

I had a second birth when my soul and my body loved one another and were married.

Seven times have I despised my soul: The sixth time when she despised the ugliness of a face, and knew not that it was one of her own masks.

At ebb tide I wrote a line upon the sand, and gave it all my heart and all my soul. At flood tide I returned to read what I had inscribed and found my ignorance upon the shore.

This for God and this for myself; This for my soul, and this other for my body?

You work that you may keep peace with the earth and the soul of the earth.

Your body is the harp of your soul and it is yours to bring forth sweet music from it or confused sounds.

if you cannot but weep when your soul summons you to prayer, she should spur you again and yet again, though weeping, until you shall come laughing

Poetry, my dear friends, is a sacred incarnation of a smile. Poetry is a sigh that dries the tears. Poetry is a spirit who dwells in the soul, whose nourishment is the heart, whose wine is affection. Poetry that comes not in this form is a false messiah.

Love descends upon our souls by the will of God and not by the demand or the plea of the individual.

The philosopher's soul dwells in his head, the poet's soul is in his heart; the singer's soul lingers about his throat, but the soul of the dancer abides in all her body.

A traveller I am, and a navigator, and everyday I discover a new region within my soul.

Those to whom worshiping is a window, to open but also to shut, have not yet visited the house of their souls whose windows are open from dawn to dawn.

He who loses his mother loses a pure soul who blesses and guards him constantly.

For the first time the sun kissed my own naked face and my soul was inflamed with love for the sun, and I wanted my masks no more. And as if in a trance I cried, "Blessed, blessed are the thieves who stole my masks." Thus I became a madman.

I have passed the mountain peak and my soul is soaring in the firmament of Complete and unbounded freedom; I am in comfort, I am in peace.

The soul unfolds itself, like a lotus of countless petals.

Say not, I have found the path of the soul Say rather, I have met the soul walking upon my path.

In the depth of my soul there is a wordless song.

The thirst of soul is sweeter than the wine of material things, and the fear of spirit is dearer than the security of the body.