Our nature is obscured by work done by the compulsion of want or fear. The mother reveals herself in the service of her children, so our true freedom is not the freedom from action but freedom in action, which can only be attained in the work of love.

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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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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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Gray hairs are signs of wisdom if you hold your tongue, speak and they are but hairs, as in the young.

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

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Faith is the bird that feels the light and sings when the dawn is still dark.

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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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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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Let your life lightly dance on the edges of time like dew on the tip of a leaf.

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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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