It is in the imperceptible space between that which touches and that which is touched that one body can be felt, no matter how closely, to be different from another.
There may be more danger in prejudices which are apparently founded in logic than in those which are acknowledged as emotions. (p69)
I couldn’t bring myself to call him either “Bill,” which would signal friendly familiarity, or “Doctor Vogel,” which would imply respect.
This is a difficult balance, telling the truth: how much to share, how much to keep, which truths will wound but not ruin, which will cut too deep to heal.
They will need you to put the right books in their hands, book in which they can lose themselves and books in which they can find themselves.
This instant which I cannot leave, which locks me in and limits me on every side, this instant I am made of will be no more than a confused dream.
And, indeed, I will ask on my own account here, an idle question: which is better - cheap happiness or exalted sufferings? Well, which is better?
The terrible shock of his sentence had in some way broken that wall which separates us from the mystery of things beyond and which we call life.
. . . for men felt therein the presence of that great human thing which is called law, and that great divine thing which is called justice.
On the exoteric level the traditions are irreconcilable. On the esoteric, experiential level of the heart reigns an eloquent, reverential silence.
Definition of a relationship - an enduring, mutually-agreed upon connection or union, which fulfills certain needs of the individuals involved and the society in which they live.
But you know as well as I, patriotism is a word; and one that generally comes to mean either , which is infamous, or , which is imbecile.
It is painful for the plant which is myself to live in the atmosphere and light of this world. Somewhere an element is lacking which would permit me to continue.
Wisdom Sufian said: 'The wisdom which is invisible but which sustains is a hundred times better than the appearance of wisdom, for that has itself to be sustained.
Which is more valuable into showing how I think: the order I think of things, or the order in which I arrange them once I’ve thought of them?
What God says is best, is best, though all the men in the world are against it.
The material you work with is that which you will come to resemble. That which you work against will always work against you, including yourself.
Everything was a test. Or a lesson. Or a punishment from which he was supposed to learn a lesson, on which he would be tested later, and punished if he hadn't learned it.
The art of living has no history: it does not evolve: the pleasure which vanishes vanishes for good, there is no substitute for it. Other pleasures come, which replace nothing. , nothing but mutations.
At the potluck, I brought two dishes: knowledge and mashed potatoes and gravy. Guess which one got cleaned out and which one hardly got touched.
The greatest love stories are not those in which love is only spoken, but those in which it is acted upon.
