He who wants to keep his garden tidy doesn't reserve a plot for weeds.

Each morning we must hold out the chalice of our being to receive, to carry, and give back. It must be held out empty - for the past must only be reflected in its polish, its shape, its capacity.

Do not look back and do not dream about the future. It will neither give you back the past, nor satisfy your other daydreams. Your duty, your reward, your destiny, is in the present moment

The life of simplicity is simple, but it opens to us a book in which we never get beyond the first syllable.

I am the vessel. The draft is God's. And God is the thirsty one.

Forgiveness breaks the chain of causality because he who 'forgives' you--out of love--takes upon himself the consequences of what you have done. Forgiveness, therefore, always entails a sacrifice. The price you must pay for your own liberation through another's sacrifice is that you in turn must be willing to liberate in the same way, irrespective of the consequences to yourself.

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