Be extremely subtle, even to the point of formlessness. Be extremely mysterious, even to the point of soundlessness. Thereby you can be the director of the opponent's fate.
Absence becomes the greatest Presence.
I will greet this day with love in my heart. For this is the greatest secret of success in all ventures. Muscles can split a shield and even destroy life itself but only the unseen power of love can open the hearts of man.
Faith has to do with things that are not seen and hope with things that are not at hand.
I don't know what God has planned for me or you or anyone, but I do know that in darkness, you discover an indistinguishable light.
Words are but the bannerets of a great army, a few bits of waving color here and there; thoughts are the main body of the footman that march unseen below.
Water represents to me, the beginnings of life, it is where we come from in our most primordial sense. It relates to some of our deepest subconscious thinking - it's a force we can't really see or understand, we just get glimpses of. But it's a part of us all.
But now having seen him which is invisible I fear not what man can do unto me.
The truth of faith is a slender, glowing element that runs through even the seemingly ordinary and undramatic moments of existence. Even at low intensity, it is a steady source of illumination. Such religious truth is powerful even when it seems faint, even when it seems obscured by the larger events of history.
I live by faith and not sight.
In the life of the Indian there is only one inevitable duty-the duty of prayer-the daily recognition of the Unseen and Eternal. Our daily devotions were more necessary to us than daily food.
Don't you believe that there is in man a deep so profound as to be hidden even to him in whom it is?
I ignored your aura but it grabbed me by the hand, like the moon pulled the tide, and the tide pulled the sand.
The inscrutable wisdom through which we exist is not less worthy of veneration in respect to what it denies us than in respect to what it has granted..
The Mole had long wanted to make the I acquaintance of the Badger. He seemed, by all accounts, to be such an important personage and, though rarely visible, to make his unseen influence felt by everybody about the place.
How inscrutable and incomprehensible are the hidden works of Nature!
Life has its own hidden forces which you can only discover by living.
A person shows himself for an instant as in a photograph but clearer and in the background something which is bigger than his shadow.
What is a soul? It's like electricity - we don't really know what it is, but it's a force that can light a room.
If a belief is not realized immediately in open deeds, it is stored up for the guidance of the future.
It is ever the invisible that is the object of our profoundest worship. With the lover it is not the seen but the unseen that he muses upon.
When we really worship anything, we love not only its clearness but its obscurity. We exult in its very invisibility.
There is nothing more mysterious than a TV set left on in an empty room. It is even stranger than a man talking to himself or a woman standing dreaming at her stove. It is as if another planet is communicating with you.
The artist must be in his work as God is in creation, invisible and all-powerful; one must sense him everywhere but never see him.
I always say to people that you have never seen the best of me, and that's what I mean - I've never been fully fit.
