Humility is just as much the opposite of self-abasement as it is of self-exaltation. To be humble is not to make comparisons. Secure in its reality, the self is neither better nor worse, bigger nor smaller, than anything else in the universe. It is ? is nothing, yet at the same time one with everything. It is in this sense that humility is absolute self-effacement.

Do not seek death. Death will find you. But seek the road which makes death a fulfillment.

If only I may grow: firmer, simpler, quieter, warmer.

Friendship needs no words - it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.

Time goes by, reputation increases, ability declines.

In a dream I walked with God through the deep places of creation; past walls that receded and gates that opened through hall after hall of silence, darkness and refreshment--the dwelling place of souls acquainted with light and warmth--until, around me, was an infinity into which we all flowed together and lived anew, like the rings made by raindrops falling upon wide expanses of calm dark waters.

It is playing safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity.