This book will definitely be read multiple times. I do believe books speak different languages to different people. When I am older, I will be different and the book's message to me will be different as well. For now, these quotes stood out and struck a chord within me.
"For even as love crowns you so shall he crucify you. Even as he is for your growth so is he for your pruning."
"Give your hearts, but not into each other's keeping..and stand together yet not too near together: for the pillars of the temple stand apart, and the oak tree and the cypress grow not in each other's shadow."
"You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth."
"For even as He loves the arrow that flies, so He loves also the bow that is stable."
"And he who has deserved to drink from the ocean of life deserves to fill his cup from your little stream"
"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."
"And when you crush an apple with your teeth, say to it in your heart, 'Your seeds shall live in my body, and the buds of your tomorrow shall blossom in my heart, and your fragrance shall be my breath, and together we shall rejoice through all the seasons."
"Together they (joy and sorrow) come, and when one sits alone with you at your board, remember that the other is asleep upon your bed."
"And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair."
"But I say that even as the holy and the righteous cannot rise beyond the highest which is in each one of you, so the wicked and the weak cannot fall lower than the lowest which is in you also."
"And when the black thread breaks, the weaver shall look into the whole cloth, and he shall examine the loom also."
"You can muffle the drum, and you can loosen the strings of the lyre, but who shall command the skylark not to sing?"
"And since you are a breath in God's sphere, and a leaf in God's forest, you too should rest in reason and move in passion."
"And the cup he brings, though it burn your lips, has been fashioned of the clay which the Potter has moistened with His own sacred tears."
"If he is indeed wise he does not bid you enter the house of his wisdom, but rather leads you to the threshold of your own mind."
"For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed."
"Yet the timeless in you is aware of life's timeslessness, and knows that yesterday is but today's memory and tomorrow is today's dream...let today embrace the past with remembrance and the future with longing."
"For what is evil but good tortured by its own hunger and thirst?"
"And even stumbling speech may strengthen a weak tongue."
"If it is for your comfort to pour your darkness into space, it is also for your delight to pour forth the dawning of your heart."
"[Pleasure] is the blossoming of your desires, but it is not their fruit."
"They should remember their pleasures with gratitude, as they would the harvest of a summer."
"You have been told that, even like a chain, you are as weak as your weakest link. This is but half the truth. You are also as strong as your strongest link."
"Verily the kindness that gazes upon itself in a mirror turns to stone."
"And I the believer was also the doubter; for often have I put my finger in my own wound that I might have the greater belief in you and the greater knowledge of you."
"That which seems most feeble and bewildered in you is the strongest and most determined."
"And you shall bless the darkness as you would bless light."
I can't wait to read it again and see this post to see how much the message will differ, if at all.
Other books, similar to this book, and are outstanding books themselves include:
Siddhartha by Herman Hesse (I love this guy)
The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
Ishmael by Daniel Quinn
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