Do not barter your precious gems for glass beads; invest your attention in that which never perishes.

The lion roams free in the forest, while the sheep huddles in the pen; awaken your lion-heart of spiritual courage.

Do not waste your tears on lost gold; weep only for the days you lived without love and awareness.

The true pilgrim journeys not with his feet to distant rivers, but with his mind into the depths of the heart.

When you see the Divine in the beggar, the stranger, and the enemy, your spiritual pilgrimage is complete.

The wound is the place where the light enters you.

What you seek is seeking you.

The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.

Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.

There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.

We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.

The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.

Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.

Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.

To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.

You cannot find peace by avoiding life.

One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.

Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.

Out of your vulnerabilities will come your strength.

And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.