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

"The water in a vessel is sparkling; the water in the sea is dark. The small truth has words which are clear; the great truth has great silence."

"Facts are many, but the truth is one."

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

"Only in love are unity and duality not in conflict."

"I have spent many days stringing and unstringing my instrument while the song I came to sing remains unsung."

"Don't limit a child to your own learning, for she was born in another time."

"When I stand before thee at the day's end, thou shalt see my scars and know that I had my wounds and also my healing."

"We gain freedom when we have paid the full price."

"Your idol is shattered in the dust to prove that God's dust is greater than your idol."

"Every difficulty slurred over will be a ghost to disturb your repose later on."

"If you shut the door to all errors, truth will be shut out."

"Trees are the earth's endless effort to speak to the listening heaven."

"Nirvana is not the blowing out of the candle. It is the extinguishing of the flame because day is come."

"Every child comes with the message that God is not yet discouraged of man."