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"Learn the words of wisdom uttered by the wise and apply them in your own life. Live them - but do not a make a show of reciting them, for he who repeats what he does not understand is no better than an ass loaded with books."
"Mother: the most beautiful word on the lips of mankind."
"He who understands you is greater kin to you than your own brother. For even your own kindred neither understand you nor know your true worth."
"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."
"It is well to give when asked, but it is better to give unasked, through understanding; and to the open-handed the search for one who shall receive is joy greater than giving."
"Give and Take... For to the bee a flower is a fountain if life And to the flower a bee is a messenger of love And to both, bee and flower, the giving and the receiving is a need and an ecstasy."
"A sense of humour is a sense of proportion."
"The teacher gives not of his wisdom, but rather of his faith and lovingness."
"Out of my deeper heart a bird rose and flew skywards. Higher and higher did it rise, yet larger and larger did it grow. At first it was but like a swallow, then a lark, then an eagle, then as vast as a spring cloud, and then it filled the starry heavens. Out of my heart a bird flew skywards. And it waxed larger as it flew. Yet it left not my heart."
"Love has no other desire but to fulfill itself."
"Women opened the windows of my eyes and the doors of my spirit. Had it not been for the woman-mother, the woman-sister, and the woman-friend, I would have been sleeping among those who seek the tranquility of the world with their snoring."
"We wanderers, ever seeking the lonelier way, begin no day where we have ended another, and no sunrise finds us where left by sunset. Even while the earth sleeps we travel. We are the seeds of that tenacious plant, and it is in our ripeness and our fullness of heart that we are given to the wind to be scattered."
"The ageless melody, unheard, heals; the healing vision, unseen, leads; the true leaders, immortal, know..."
"A traveller I am, and a navigator, and everyday I discover a new region within my soul."
"A teacher can only lead you to the threshold of your own mind."
"To be able to look back upon ones life in satisfaction, is to live twice."
"I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art."
"It has been said that next to hunger and thirst, our most basic human need is for storytelling."
"Beauty is life when life unveils her holy face."
"The very strength that protects the heart from injury is the strength that prevents the heart from enlarging to its intended greatness within. The song of the voice is sweet, but the song of the heart is the pure voice of heaven."