“It is important and right that all privileges of the law be ours, but it is vastly more important that we be prepared for the exercise of those privileges.” 

One man cannot hold another man down in the ditch without remaining down in the ditch with him.

With life as short as a half-taken breath, don’t plant anything but love.

Love risks everything and asks for nothing.

Stay with friends who support you in these. Talk with them about sacred texts, and how you are doing, and how they are doing, and keep your practices together.

Daylight, full of small dancing particles and the one great turning, our souls are dancing with you, without feet, they dance. Can you see them when I whisper in your ear?

Who could be so lucky? Who comes to a lake for water and sees the reflection of moon.

We can’t help being thirsty, moving toward the voice of water.

The breeze at dawn has secrets to tell you. Don’t go back to sleep.

Your light is more magnificent than sunrise or sunset.

The sky will bow down to your beauty, if you do.

Everything that is made beautiful and fair and lovely is made for the eye of one who sees.

He who has overcome his fears will truly be free.

A friend to all is a friend to none.

The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes.

The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival.

Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life.

We must be neither cowardly nor rash but courageous.

There is no great genius without some touch of madness.

The greatest thing by far is to be a master of metaphor; it is the one thing that cannot be learned from others; and it is also a sign of genius, since a good metaphor implies an intuitive perception of the similarity of the dissimilar.

The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.

Probable impossibilities are to be preferred to improbable possibilities.

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.

In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.