Destiny is the prison and chain of the ignorant. Understand that destiny like the water of the Nile: Water before the faithful, blood before the unbeliever.
The mind that rests only on the surface of things will be tossed about in every storm. Let me dive deep to where peace can always be found.
Happiness... it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort.
If the mind wants to comprehend reality, it will have to come out of the past and the future. But coming out of the past and the future, it is no longer the mind at all. Hence the insistence of all the great masters of the world that the door to reality is no-mind.
Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase.
The first condition of understanding a foreign country is to smell it.
Faith has to do with things that are not seen and hope with things that are not at hand.
All sorrow disappears in the awareness of your blessings.
The nearest way to glory is to strive to be what you wish to be thought to be.
He who knows, does not speak. He who speaks, does not know.
The world makes way for the man who knows where he is going.
Both dreams and myths are important communications from ourselves to ourselves. If we do not understand the language in which they are written, we miss a great deal of what we know and tell ourselves in those hours when we are not busy manipulating the outside world.
It is good to realize that if love and peace can prevail on earth, and if we can teach our children to honor nature's gifts, the joys and beauties of the outdoors will be here forever.
Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.
If you have integrity, nothing else matters. If you don't have integrity, nothing else matters.
