Melody and harmony are like lines and colors in pictures. A simple linear picture may be completely beautiful; the introduction of color may make it vague and insignificant. Yet color may, by combination with lines, create great pictures, so long as it does not smother and destroy their value.

Praise shames me, for I secretly beg for it.

Love is the only reality and it is not a mere sentiment. It is the ultimate truth that lies at the heart of creation.

Facts are many, but the truth is one.

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

The child learns so easily because he has a natural gift, but adults, because they are tyrants, ignore natural gifts and say that children must learn through the same process that they learned by. We insist upon forced mental feeding and our lessons

To be outspoken is easy when you do not wait to speak the complete truth.

Beauty is truth's smile when she beholds her own face in a perfect mirror.

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

Truth looks tawdry when she is overdressed.

God is neither manifest nor hidden; He is neither revealed nor unrevealed; there are no words to tell that which He is. He is without form, without quality, without decay.

The earth paints a portrait of the sun at dawn with sunflowers in bloom. Unhappy with the portrait, she erases it and paints it again and again.

The best kind of wealth is to give up inordinate desires.

Blessed is he whose fame does not outshine his truth.

The stars are not afraid to appear like fireflies.

The most important lesson that man can learn from life, is not that there is pain in this world, but that it is possible for him to transmute it into joy.

For many years, at great cost, I traveled through many countries, saw the high mountains, the oceans. The only things I did not see were the sparkling dewdrops in the grass just outside my door.

Man is worse than an animal when he is an animal.

Be brave, right through, and leave for the unknown.

Give Me Strength This is my prayer to thee, my lord---strike, strike at the root of penury in my heart. Give me the strength lightly to bear my joys and sorrows. Give me the strength to make my love fruitful in service. Give me the strength never to disown the poor or bend my knees before insolent might. Give me the strength to raise my mind high above daily trifles. And give me the strength to surrender my strength to thy will with love.

The spirit of rejection finds its support in the consciousness of separateness; the spirit of acceptance finds its base in the consciousness of unity.

To find God, you must welcome everything.

The flower which is single need not envy the thorns that are numerous.