There are words which sever hearts more than sharp swords; there are words the point of which sting the heart through the course of a whole life.
Many teachers will tell you to believe; then they put out your eyes of reason and instruct you to follow only their logic. But I want you to keep your eyes of reason open; in addition, I will open in you another eye, the eye of wisdom.
That one I love who is incapable of ill will, and returns love for hatred. Living beyond the reach of I and mind, pain and pleasure, full of mercy, contented, self-controlled, with all his heart and all his mind given to Me – with such a one I am in love.
Travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living.
