Favorite Quotes and Inspirations

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.

~ Albert Einstein

It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be created in years or even generations.

~ Kahlil Gibran

The power to love is God's greatest gift to man, for it never can be taken from the blessed one who loves.

~ Kahlil Gibran

Love lies in the soul alone, not in the body, and like wine should stimulate our better self to welcome gifts of Divine Love.

~ Kahlil Gibran

There is no struggle of mind and body save in the minds of those whose souls are asleep and whose bodies are out of tune.

~ Kahlil Gibran

I will tell you a thing that you may not know. The most highly sexed beings upon the planet are the creators: the poets, sculptors, painters, musicians - and so it has been from the beginning. And among them sex is always beautiful, and it is always shy.

~ Kahlil Gibran

Your friend is your needs answered. He is your field which you sow with love and reap with thanksgiving. ...you come to him with your hunger, and you seek him for peace. And let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.

~ Kahlil Gibran

Your thought advocates Judaism, Brahmanism, Buddhism, Christianity, and Islam. In my thoughts there is only one universal religion whose varied paths are but the fingers of the loving hand of the Supreme Being.

~ Kahlil Gibran

What happiness can there be apart from this intimate conversation with the Beloved, the Soul of Souls.

~ Rumi

We have a right to be happy and peaceful. We have been created for this - we are born to be happy - and we can only find true happiness and peace when we are in love with God: there is joy only in loving God, great happiness in loving Him.

~ Mother Teresa

What is a real connection between people? When the same knowledge opens a door between them. When the same inner sight exists in you as in another, you are drawn to be companions. When a man feels in himself the innermost nature of a woman, he is drawn to her sexually. When a woman feels the masculine self of a man within her, she wants him physically in her.

~ Rumi

I want to know God's thoughts. The rest are details.

~ Albert Einstein

And what is it to work with love? It is to weave the cloth with threads drawn from your own heart, even as if your beloved were to wear that cloth.

~ Kahlil Gibran

I am not escaping from this world; but what I like best is to enjoy myself alone without mingling in the crowd.

~ Ryokan

Looking back on over seventy years, I tire of seeing through the right and wrong of the world of man. The path outside shows no footprints in the late snow, a stick of incense burning in front of the window.

~ Ryokan

Out beyond ideas of wrong doing and right doing, there is a field. I'll meet you there.

~ Rumi

This is my life, and that which is my life, I must do.

~ Kahlil Gibran