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The truth that needs proof is only half true.
— Spiritual Sayings of Kahlil Gibran, Anthony Ferris (tr.), p. 18.

Keep me from the wisdom that does not weep, and the philosophy that does not laugh, and the pride that does not bow its head before a child.
— Kahlil Gibran, Ibid., p. 18.

Among the people there are killers who have not yet shed blood, and thieves who have stolen nothing, and liars who have so far told the truth.
— Kahlil Gibran, Ibid., p. 18.

Fear of the devil is one way of doubting God.
— Kahlil Gibran, Ibid., p. 23.

The difficulty we meet in reaching our goal is the shortest path to it.
— Kahlil Gibran, Ibid., p. 23.

They tell me, "If you find a slave asleep, don't wake him up; he may be dreaming of freedom." And I reply, "If you find a slave asleep, wake him and talk to him about freedom."
— Kahlil Gibran, Ibid., p. 23.

How distant I am from people when I am with them, and how close when they are far away.
— Kahlil Gibran, Ibid., p. 54.

Master Mumon ironically comments on himself: 'He has made it all so clear, it takes a long time to catch the point. If you realize it is foolish to look for fire with fire, the meal won't take so long to cook.'
— Irmgard Schloegl, The Wisdom of the Zen Masters, p. 52.

Master Yoka cautions: 'Getting rid of things and clinging to emptiness are the same illness. It is like throwing oneself into fire to avoid being drowned.
— Irmgard schloegl, Ibid., p. 78.

One day St. Ignatius went to pray in a church outside Manresa. The road led along a river-bank. When he sat down to rest, his eye fixed on the running water and his mind in prayer, he experienced an intense and sudden enlightenment. Although he could never find words to describe what had been revealed to him there, he used to say that all things seemed to have been made new, and that what he understood in that moment exceeded everything that he had learned during his whole life.
— Stephen Clissold, The Wisdom of the Spanish Mystics, pp. 43-44.

After St. Teresa's death, the following lines were found inscribed in her breviary:
     Let nothing perturb you, nothing frighten you.
     All things pass;
     God does not change.
     Patience achieves everything.
     Whoever has God lacks nothing.
     God alone suffices.
— Stephen Clissold, Ibid., p. 81.

The Magid R. Dov Baer taught: The creation of heaven and earth was the bringing forth of something from nothing, but the work of the Hassidic Masters is to bring out the mystical Nothing from this something.
— Alan Unterman, The Wisdom of the Jewish Mystics, p. 54.

R. Schneur Zalman taught: Everyone who has insight into the matter will understand clearly that everything created and having being is as absolute naught with regard to the Activating Force, which is in all created being. This Force constitutes its reality and draws it forth from absolute nothingness to being. The fact that all created things seem to have existence and being in their own right is because we can neither conceive nor see, with our physical eyes, the Force of God which is in the created world. Were the eyes able to see and conceive the vitality and spirituality in each created thing, which flows through it from the divine source, then the physicality, materiality, and substantiality of the created world would not be seen at all; because apart from the spiritual dimension it is absolute nothingness. There is really nothing in existence besides God.
— Alan Unterman, Ibid, p. 56-57.

R. Abraham Isaac Kook taught that the truly righteous do not complain about wickedness, instead they increase righteousness; they do not complain against unbelief and heresy, instead they increase faith; they do not complain about foolishness, instead they add wisdom.
— Alan Unterman, Ibid., p. 80.