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"Would that I were a dry well, and that the people tossed stones into me, for that would be easier than to be a spring of flowing water that the thirsty pass by, and from which they avoid drinking."
"Love is timeless.... Death does not separate the lover from the beloved."
"The smallest act of kindness is worth more than the greatest intention."
"In one drop of water are found all the secrets of all the oceans; in one aspect of You are found all the aspects of existence."
"You progress not through what has been done, but reaching towards what has yet to be done."
"Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love."
"Tortoises can tell you more about the road than hares."
"The teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you to enter the house of his wisdom but rather leads you to the threshold of your mind."
"Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding."
"Your friend is your field which you sow with love and reap with thanksgiving."
"All things in this creation exist within you and all things in you exist in creation; there is no border between you and the closest things, and there is no distance between you and the farthest things, and all things, from the lowest to the loftiest, from the smallest to the greatest, are within you as equal things."
"I prefer to be a dreamer among the humblest, with visions to be realized, than lord among those without dreams and desires."
"In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed."
"Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair, but manifestations of strength and resolution."
"When I planted my pain in the field of patience it bore fruit of happiness."
"You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth."
"Spring is beautiful everywhere, but it is more than beautiful in Lebanon. Spring is the spirit of an unknown God speeding through the world, which, as it reaches Lebanon, pauses, because now it is as at home with the souls of the Prophets and Kings hovering over the land, chanting with the brooks of Judea, the eternal Psalms of Solomon, renewing with the Cedars of Lebanon memories of an ancient glory."
"Do not fear the thorns in your path, for they draw only corrupt blood."
"Where is the justice of political power if it executes the murderer and jails the plunderer, and then itself marches upon neighboring lands, killing thousands and pillaging the very hills?"
"He who does not see the angels and devils in the beauty and malice of life will be far removed from knowledge, and his spirit will be empty of affection."