Wisdom comes to those who learn nothing, unlearn everything.

If you look carefully you will see that there is one thing and only one thing that causes unhappiness. The name of that thing is attachment. What is an attachment? An emotional state of clinging caused by the belief that without some particular thing or some person you cannot be happy.

Enlightenment is: absolute cooperation with the inevitable.

This is what is ultimate in our human knowledge of God, to know that we do not know.

What I really enjoy is not you; it's something that's greater than both you and me. It is something that I discovered, a kind of symphony, a kind of orchestra that plays one melody in your presence, but when you depart, the orchestra doesn't stop. When I meet someone else, it plays another melody, which is also very delightful. And when I'm alone, it continues to play.

Sin is a refusal to grow, a refusal to love, a refusal to get committed, to be concerned, and to take risks.

You have to understand, my dears, that the shortest distance between truth and a human being is a story.