To ask me to verify my life by giving you my statistics is like using science to validate sorcery. It robs the world of its magic and makes milestones out of us all.

When one has nothing to lose, one becomes courageous. We are timid only when there is something we can still cling to.

For a human being, sadness is as powerful as terror. Sadness makes a warrior shed tears of blood.

The secret is not in what you do to yourself but rather in what you don't do.

It is best to erase all personal history because that would make us free from the encumbering thoughts of other people

... the daily world exists because we know how to hold its images; consequently, if one drops the attention needed to maintain those images, the world collapses

Eventually I saw that the path of the heart requires a full gesture, a degree of abandon that can be terrifying. Only then is it possible to achieve a sparkling metamorphosis.