You can have your cake and eat it. But my God, it will go rotten inside you.

So long as you don't feel life's paltry and a miserable business, the rest doesn't matter, happiness or unhappiness.

One should feel inside oneself for right and wrong, and should have the patience to gradually realise one's God.

When we get out of the glass bottles of our ego, and when we escape like squirrels turning in the cages of our personality and get into the forests again, we shall shiver with cold and fright but things will happen to us so that we don't know ourselves. Cool, unlying life will rush in, and passion will make our bodies taut with power, we shall stamp our feet with new power and old things will fall down, we shall laugh, and institutions will curl up like burnt paper.

The living moment is everything.

The soul is a very perfect judge of her own motions, if your mind doesn't dictate to her.

They wanted genuine intimacy, but they could not get even normally near to anyone, because they scorned to take the first steps, they scorned the triviality which forms common human intercourse.