The garden is growth and change and that means loss as well as constant new treasures to make up for a few disasters.

We are all jellyfish, too pitiful and too afraid of being disliked to be honest.

Everything that slows us down and forces patience, everything that sets us back into the slow circles of nature, is a help. Gardening is an instrument of grace.

Without darkness, nothing comes to birth, As without light, nothing flowers.

What is destructive is impatience, haste, expecting too much too fast.

We have to dare to be ourselves, however frightening or strange that self may prove to be.

The minute one utters a certainty, the opposite comes to mind.

The most valuable thing we can do for the psyche, occasionally, is to let it rest, wander, live in the changing light of room, not try to be or do anything whatever.

There are some griefs so loud/They could bring down the sky/And there are griefs so still/None knows how deep they lie.

A house that does not have one warm, comfy chair in it is soulless.

It is, I assume, quite easy to wither into old age, and hard to grow into it.

The only sin is the sin of being born

Life is not a battle to win but a melody to sing.

A Muslim just follows Allah. Sunni-Shiah? That's farga, the groups—Allah discourages this in the Quran, you know, never ever form the groups.

Selfishness is a giant in destruction of relationships.

All children think unkindly of their parents at some time or another

The purpose of this life and all its experiences is not to make ourselves what we think we should be. It is to unfold who we already are.

God requires not the doing of the commandments for their own sake, but the correction of the soul, for whose sake He established the commandments.

Products are valued higher than services.

If that makes your lawyers or managers happy, well, good for them. You still have a lot to worry about.

Meaning is what essence becomes when it is divorced from the object of reference and wedded to the word.