There is so much wisdom packed into this book. Short read also.
Recommended for anyone who is looking to learn more about philosophy and life in general.
Flow: 5/5
Actionability: 3/5
Mindset: 5/5
Some of My Highlights:
“For even as love crowns you so shall he crucify you. Even as he is for your growth so is he for your pruning.”
“When you love you should not say, ‘God is in my heart,’ but rather, ‘I am in the heart of God.'”
“Love has no other desire but to fulfill itself.”
“But let there be space in your togetherness,”
“Give one another of your bread but eat not from the same loaf. Sing and dance together and be joyous, but let each one of you be alone,”
“Your children are not your children. They come through you… And though they are with you yet they belong not to you.”
“You may give them your love but not your thoughts… For they have their own thoughts.”
“You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.”
“And there are those who have little and give it all. These are the believers in life and the bounty of life, and their coffer is never empty.”
“It is well to give when asked, but it is better to give unasked, through understanding”
“But since you must kill to eat, and rob the newly born of its mother’s milk to quench your thirst, let it then be an act of worship.”
“But I say to you that when you work you fulfil a part of earth’s furthest dream, assigned to you when that dream was born… And in keeping yourself with labour you are in truth loving life”
“And when you work with love you bind yourself to yourself, and to one another, and to God.”
“Work is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love but only distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of those who work with joy.”
“The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain.”
“When you are joyous, look deep into your heart and you shall find it is only that which has given you sorrow that is giving you joy.”
“Only when you are empty are you at standstill and balanced.”
“But you, children of space, you restless in rest, you shall not be trapped nor tamed. Your house shall be not an anchor but a mast.”
“Would that you could meet the sun and the wind with more of your skin and less of your raiment… For the breath of life is in the sunlight and the hand of life is in the wind.”
“It is in exchanging the gifts of the earth that you shall find abundance and be satisfied. Yet unless the exchange be in love and kindly justice, it will but lead some to greed and others to hunger.”
“And before you leave the market place, see that no one has gone his way with empty hands.”