Oftentimes I have hated in self-defense; but if I were stronger I would not have used such a weapon.

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Would that I were a dry well, and that the people tossed stones into me, for that would be easier than to be a spring of flowing water that the thirsty pass by, and from which they avoid drinking.

The soul unfolds itself, like a lotus of countless petals.

You would adjust your conduct and even direct the course of your spirit according to hours and seasons.

Love...it surrounds every being and extends slowly to embrace all that shall be.

Love is quivering happiness.

Do not the spirits who dwell in the ether envy man his pain?

For what is prayer but the expansion of your self into the living ether?

If you sing of beauty though alone in the heart of the desert you will have an audience.

We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.

Fortune craves not Contentment, for it is an earthly hope, and its desires are embraced by union with objects, while Contentment is naught but heartfelt.

You are the way and the wayfarers. And when one of you falls down he falls for those behind him, a caution against the stumbling stone. Aye, and he falls for those ahead of him, who, though faster and surer of foot, yet removed not the stumbling stone.

Time has been transformed, and we have changed; it has advanced and set us in motion; it has unveiled its face, inspiring us with bewilderment and exhilaration.

Defeat, my defeat, my deathless courage, You and I shall laugh together with the storm, And together we shall dig graves for all that die in us, and we shall stand in the sun with a will, And we shall be dangerous.

For what is it to die but to stand naked in the wind and to melt into the sun? And when the earth shall claim your limbs, then shall you truly dance.