The fact to which we have got to cling, as to a lifebelt, is that it is possible to be a normal decent person and yet be fully alive.

Which way will the sunflower turn surrounded by millions of suns?

Inside skull vast as outside skull

I don’t think there’s any problem with advancing consciousness and becoming more and more aware of the struggle, not with the world, not to convince other people to do anything. The really interesting think is the struggle with the self, and the relation with the self, and there is no end to the improvement that can be done there, the discoveries that can be made.

The weight of the world is love. Under the burden of solitude, under the burden of dissatisfaction.

There should be no distinction between what we write down, and what we really know.

who burned cigarette holes in their arms protesting the narcotic tobacco haze of Capitalism