Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.
Don’t be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others. Unfold your own myth.
Do not grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form.
The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.
The wound is the place where the Light enters you.
Change your thoughts, and you change your world.
Silence is the language of God. All else is poor translation.
When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy.
Forget safety. Live where you fear to live. Destroy your reputation. Be notorious.
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.
The art of knowing is knowing what to ignore.
Respond to every call that excites your spirit.
The cure for pain is in the pain.
I have been a seeker and I still am, but I stopped asking the books and the stars. I started listening to the teaching of my Soul.
Don’t you know yet? It is your light that lights the world.
Everyone has been made for some particular work, and the desire for that work has been put in every heart.
In silence there is eloquence. Stop weaving and see how the pattern improves.
The universe is not outside of you. Look inside yourself; everything that you want, you already are.
Do you know what you are? You are a manuscript of a divine letter. You are a mirror reflecting a noble face. This universe is not outside of you. Look inside yourself; everything that you want, you are already that.
As you start to walk on the way, the way appears.
The beauty you see in me is a reflection of you.
Remember, the entrance door to the sanctuary is inside you.
Do you know what your essence is? It is the thing that lives where you are not. It is that in your life which cannot change when circumstances do.
Don’t try to steer the river.
Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love. It will not lead you astray.
Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.
You are not a drop in the ocean. You are the entire ocean in a drop.
Why do you stay in prison when the door is so wide open?
What hurts you, blesses you. Darkness is your candle.
If you are irritated by every rub, how will you ever be polished?
The reality of the other person is not in what he reveals to you, but in what he cannot reveal to you. Therefore, if you would understand him, listen not to what he says, but rather to what he does not say.
Wherever you are, and whatever you do, be in love.
The greater part of what my neighbors call good, I believe in my soul to be bad.
Two there are who are never satisfied — the lover of the world and the lover of knowledge.
The garden of the world has no limits, except in your mind.
Respond to every call that excites your spirit.
Whenever you go, go with all your heart.
When the world pushes you to your knees, you’re in the perfect position to pray.
What you seek, is seeking you.
Be like the sun for grace and mercy. Be like the night to cover others’ faults. Be like running water for generosity. Be like death for rage and anger. Be like the Earth for modesty. Appear as you are. Be as you appear.
The only lasting beauty is the beauty of the heart.
What matters is how quickly you do what your soul directs.
Stop acting so small. You are the universe in ecstatic motion.
Do you think I know what I’m doing? That for one breath or half-breath, I belong to myself? As much as a pen knows what it’s writing, or the ball can guess where it’s going next.
Whatever happens, just keep smiling and lose yourself in love.
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