Who knows the flower best? - the one who reads about it in a book, or the one who finds it wild on the mountainside? — Alexandra David-Neel Copy Share Image
Landscapes have a language of their own, expressing the soul of the things, lofty or humble, which constitute them, from the mighty peaks to the smallest of the tiny flowers hidden in the meadow's grass. — Alexandra David-Neel Copy Share Image
To fashion stars out of dog dung, that is the Great Work. To take a negative experience and, by comparing it to something worse,… — Alexandra David-Neel Copy Share Image
Who knows the flower best? - the one who reads about it in a book, or the one who finds it wild on the… — Alexandra David-Neel Copy Share Image
The wise expect nothing, hope for nothing, thus avoiding all disappointment and anxiety. — Alexandra David-Neel Copy Share Image
Neglecting small things under the pretext of wanting to accomplish large ones is the excuse of a coward. — Alexandra David-Neel Copy Share Image
Work cannot convey the almost voluptuous sweetness of the feelings experienced ... in solitude. — Alexandra David-Neel Copy Share Image
One must be very strong, or very stupid, or completely exhausted to face life with indifference. — Alexandra David-Neel Copy Share Image
There is nothing truly serious in life. All words sound hollow when one listens to them carefully. — Alexandra David-Neel Copy Share Image
All things are aggregations of atoms that dance & by their movement produce sound. When the rhythm of the dance changes, the sound it… — Alexandra David-Neel Copy Share Image
Suffering raises up those souls that are truly great; it is only small souls that are made mean-spirited by it. — Alexandra David-Neel Copy Share Image
Landscapes have a language of their own, expressing the soul of the things, lofty or humble, which constitute them, from the mighty peaks to… — Alexandra David-Neel Copy Share Image
Very few of us are capable of being Free Thinkers, needing neither to adore nor to insult God, the insult often being an act… — Alexandra David-Neel Copy Share Image
