The small wisdom is like water in a glass: clear, transparent, pure. The great wisdom is like the water in the sea: dark, mysterious, impenetrable..

Music is the purest form of art, and therefore the most direct expression of beauty, with a form and spirit which is one and simple, and least encumb….

Those who have everything but thee, my God, laugh at those who have nothing but thyself..

Spurious fame spreads from tongue to tongue like the fog of the early dawn before the sun rises..

I am ashamed of my emptiness," said the Word to the Work. "I know how poor I am when I see you," said the Work to the Word..

It means that God's Creation has not its source in any necessity; it comes from his fullness of joy; it is his love that creates, therefore in Creati….

The progress of our soul is like a perfect poem. It has an infinite idea which, once realised, makes all movements full of meaning and joy..

In love at one of its poles you find the personal, and at the other the impersonal. At one you have the positive assertion — Here I am; at the other ….

The night kissed the fading day With a whisper: "I am death, your mother, From me you will get new birth.".

Our creation is the modification of relationship..

Overstraining is the enemy of accomplishment. Calm strength that arises from a deep and inexhaustible source is what brings success..

If I call not thee in my prayers, if I keep not thee in my heart, thy love for me still waits for my love..

I believe in a spiritual world - not as anything separate from this world - but as its innermost truth. With the breath we draw we must always feel t….

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

Age considers; youth ventures..

That which oppresses me, is it my soul trying to come out in the open, or the soul of the world knocking at my heart for entrance?.

My fancies are fireflies Specks of living light twinkling in the dark..

By unrighteousness man prospers, gains what appears desirable, conquer enemies, but perishes a the root..

Compliments win friends, honesty loses them..

The meaning of this is, that whomsoever we love, in him we find our own soul in the highest sense. The final truth of our existence lies in this. God….

Life's aspirations come in the guise of children..