There is a deep, peaceful calm in the dawning of a new day.

I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is.

Life is not a problem to be solved, but an experience to be had.

If you study the writings of the mystics, you will always find things in them that appear to be paradoxes, as in Zen, particularly.

Here is the vicious circle: if you feel separate from your organic life, you feel driven to survive; survival -going on living- thus becomes a duty and also a drag because you are not fully with it; because it does not quite come up to expectations, you continue to hope that it will, to crave for more time, to feel driven all the more to go on.

For if you know what you want, and will be content with it, you can be trusted. But if you do not know, your desires are limitless and no one can tell how to deal with you. Nothing satisfies an individual incapable of enjoyment.

A myth is an image in terms of which we try to make sense of the world.