There isn't any formula or method. You learn to love by loving - by paying attention and doing what one thereby discovers has to be done.

After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.

It is only when we have renounced our preoccupation with "I," "me," "mine," that we can truly possess the world in which we live. Everything, provided that we regard nothing as property. And not only is everything ours; it is also everybody else's.

A gramme is better than a damn.

Seated upon the convex mound Of one vast kidney, Jonah prays And sings his canticles and hymns, Making the hollow vault resound God's goodness and mysterious ways, Till the great fish spouts music as he swims.

People will come to love their oppression, to adore the technologies that undo their capacities to think.

It is natural to believe in God when you're alone-- quite alone, in the night, thinking about death.