Love is not a mere impulse, it must contain truth, which is law.

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I slept and dreamt that life was a joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was a joy.

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The one who plants trees, knowing that he will never sit in their shade, has at least started to understand the meaning of life.

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Love is an endless mystery because there is no reasonable cause that could explain it.

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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.

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When we accept any discipline for ourselves, we try to avoid everything except that which is necessary for our purpose; it is this purposefulness, which belongs to the adult mind, that we force upon school children. We say, “Never keep your mind alert.

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Death is not extinguishing the light; it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come.

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The burden of the self is lightened with I laugh at myself.

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If I can’t make it through one door, I’ll go through another door or I’ll make a door. Something terrific will come no matter how dark the present.

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I have spent a fortune travelling to distant shores and looked at lofty mountains and boundless oceans, and yet I haven’t found time to take a few steps from my house to look at a single dewdrop on a single blade of grass.

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