Deliverance is not for me in renunciation. I feel the embrace of freedom in a thousand bonds of delight.

Nirvana is not the blowing out of the candle. It is the extinguishing of the flame because day is come.

The greed for fruit misses the flower.

If you shut your door to all errors truth will be shut out.

Only in love are unity and duality not in conflict.

Not hammer-strokes, but dance of the water, sings the pebbles into perfection.

Stray birds of summer come to my window to sing and fly away. And yellow leaves of autumn, which have no songs, flutter and fall there with a sigh.

Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance

Death belongs to life as birth does The walk is in the raising of the foot as in the laying of it down

The traveler has to knock at every alien door to come to his own, and one has to wander through all the outer worlds to reach the innermost shrine at the end.

I will sit in the pupil of your eyes and that will carry your sight into the heart of the things

My day is done, and I am like a boat drawn on the beach, listening to the dance-music of the tide in the evening.

The young student sits with his head bent over his books, and his mind straying in youth's dreamland; where prose is prowling on the desk and poetry hiding in the heart.

Beauty is simply reality seen with the eyes of love

God waits to win back his own flowers as gifts from man's hands.

The roots below the earth claim no rewards for making the branches fruitful.

The water in a vessel is sparkling; the water in the sea is dark. The small truth has words which are clear; the great truth has great silence.

Age considers; youth ventures.

Once we dreamt that we were strangers. We wake up to find that we were dear to each other.

When you came you cried and everybody smiled with joy; when you go smile and let the world cry for you.

We cross infinity with every step; we meet eternity in every second.

Trees are the earth's endless effort to speak to the listening heaven.

Power said to the world, "You are mine." The world kept it prisoner on her throne. Love said to the world, "I am thine." The world gave it the freedom of her house.

The highest education is that which does not merely give us information but makes our life in harmony with all existence.