1. What I do, returns to me.
2. The soul is close, but God is even closer! Yet I search for Him beyond the furthest boundaries...
3. What truth is greater than everyday life itself?
4. What cannot be changed, yet cannot be discarded either— to grow accustomed to it is what we call living.
5. What cannot be attained despite all desire— to abandon claims upon it is not renunciation, but weakness.
6. Whatever the soul desires— one's own soul or another's— the path to receiving and giving it is righteousness.
7. One person pulls the plow, another sows the seed, someone else harvests the crop.
8. What the soul desires, failing to give the soul that— what joy is there even in conquering the whole world?
9. A person loves most deeply the one in whose name they can write...without hesitation ...all that they have achieved or created.
10. A sharp mind and a simple heart— what greater wealth could there be than these two!
11. Throw ash toward the light, can the eyes then escape unharmed!
12. One whose heart is full of hatred— in what temple does that person find merit!
13. If the rider chooses to walk, where is the horse at fault in this?
14. Without knowing yourself, you've come to know me!
15. A person sees only as much as they are able to see. Everything beyond that they view with suspicious eyes.
16. Before we open ourselves to life, life opens itself to us.
17. At each age of the mind a different God of life.
18. What I cannot obtain even through prayer is not mine.
19. The one who sees the most is the one who knows what should not be seen even when visible.
20. If prayer required only lips, where would the God of the mute escape to?