Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life’s longing for itself. They came through you but not from you and though they are with you yet they belong not to you.
The person you consider ignorant and insignificant is the one who came from God, that he might learn bliss from grief and knowledge from gloom.
Knowledge of the self is the mother of all knowledge. So it is incumbent on me to know my self, to know it completely, to know its minutiae, its characteristics, its subtleties, and its very atoms.
I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art.
No man can reveal to you nothing but that which already lies half-asleep in the dawning of your knowledge.
The just is close to the people’s heart, but the merciful is close to the heart of God.