Excerpts and quotes

Love
When you operate with love, there is no need of rules. Love is such a great force. It's a discipline of the highest order.

What is love if you don't express it! What is a flower if it never blooms?

"Guilt, shame and fear!" he shouted in the air. There was challenge in his voice. "Now you don't stand a chance. Raise your ugly heads again and you'll be pulverized with the power of love."

Personal greatness
When you know your own greatness, petty things lose their sting.

How wonderful it is to have someone who believes in you!
But what if no one believes in you?
Then believe in yourself!

"Oh great teacher, before I leave, I want to know the secret of your great life."
"Oh, that's simple," laughed the old master. "I found a cause that was greater than myself and gave my life to it. Life did the rest."

To explore your hidden genius. To express your unknown potentials. To discover your own greatness. That's the fun, the greatest fun.

"Marvelous!" he exclaimed suddenly, startling the little boy. The light on his face shone even brighter than before. "Ingenious!" he exclaimed louder. "This is truly the work of a genius."

You become one with it. That's the way you express the true desire of your heart. That's the way you create amazing things. That's how you give birth to your masterpiece. You lose yourself to find your own greatness.

Life
How foolish it is to have life and not know about it!

To look as far as you can, to grow as tall as you can, and to spread your roots as deep and wide as you can – that's the secret of life.

How fruitless it would be to reach your destination and miss the journey!

Teacher
And I am a teacher. Just ask me and all I've known in so many years is yours in a moment.

"The caterpillar has no choice at all," the teacher revealed, "but to become a butterfly. It's the design of nature."
"But you are not caterpillars!" she thundered, all of a sudden.
"You are heroes and champions, geniuses and giants," she declared, and her words echoed. "Shine, my little stars, shine. You have enough brightness in you to illuminate the whole world."
What a teacher she was! She saw her students as who they could be in life. And they saw her as an angel. What a way to see each other!

Mistakes
It's a good thing to laugh at your mistakes. If you don’t, then they will laugh at you and torment you. Look at your mistakes in the eye and laugh, and watch how they turn into pearls of wisdom."

Failure
If you fail a test, it doesn’t mean that you are a failure. It just means that you got a result. Tests can be taken again and results can be changed. You are worth a lot more than any test or result, and you can't let it dictate your value.

Learning
When you don’t learn for a test, then you learn for life. The more things you learn, the richer your life gets, and the fuller you get to live it.

When you reach your future's door and your future asks, 'What have you brought for me?' what will you say? Shouldn't you take something, maybe a gift or two?
It was a land of freedom and choices. Exploration and discovery were the rules. Imagination and creativity were the tools. Love was the language. Everyone followed their passion and lived up to their true genius.

Stranger
Curiosity was killing the little boy now. Who is this mysterious stranger?
The question bulged like a balloon inside him. It could burst any time. If he delayed, it could even explode and shatter him to pieces. So he asked:
"Who are you?"
The new boy replied with a knowing smile: "As I said, I'm whatever you call me. Call me a genie and I can grant you three wishes. Call me an angel and I'll give you wings to fly. Call me a devil and I'll send you to hell. But call me a friend and give me your love, and I'm yours forever."
The little boy shrugged, and then smiled. He didn’t know what to say. He somehow liked to believe this stranger who was becoming more than just a friend. He was entering his very soul as if he always belonged there.

Perception
There are more ways to see the world than with the eyes, and there are more ways communicate than with the words. You will discover everything if you explore. You could even discover that you have a hundred senses rather than just five.

It could be true that the beauty we see around us is really our own beauty reflected back to us. It could be true that how we see other people is really how we are. It could be true that when we call someone ugly or stupid, we are really calling that to ourselves.

Luck
You look for luck when you are weak and full of doubt. When you are powered by your passion and driven by your dreams, you don't need luck. You already have it.

Imagination
"Never stop imagining!"

Loss
"When you lose everything you have, what remains?"
"Nothing," the little boy replied promptly.
"No, you remain," said the wizard. "That's the greatest news in life."
The wizard's eyes sparkled as he spoke. "You remain," he repeated. "And you are certainly greater than anything that can happen to you. You are the master."

Child to parents
When things go wrong and the world is against me, can I come to you? Can I ask for shelter in your big hearts? Will you give your strong shoulders for me to cry on? I can share with you all my secrets, can't I? If not you, then who?

Beauty
She was indeed a beauty queen. Her wrinkled face glowed brilliantly and she moved with the grace of an angel. She didn't just look beautiful, she was beautiful. Her beauty rippled from the core of her heart and permeated her every thought and action.

The cosmos
It was a garden of brilliant worlds and dazzling galaxies. There were whole universes here, of all kinds. Some were blooming like flowers and others were falling like rain. There were some that bubbled and simmered, and there were others that flashed and splashed. There were worlds made of only ideas and there were realms of magic and dreams.

Life on earth
The little earth is the envy of every other world. It is the favorite of gods and angels. They all want to be born there, at least once.

To carry all the greatness in you, yet to forget all about it and to discover it all over again. That's the beauty of life on earth.

To be all so powerful, yet feel powerless in the caring hands of your mother. To know everything, yet act as if you don't know, and to learn everything in the loving presence of a teacher. This is something that I can experience only on earth. And I wouldn't miss it for all the other worlds.