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

Your body must become familiar with its death - in all its possible forms and degrees - as a self-evident, imminent, and emotionally neutral step on the way towards the goal you have found worthy of your life.

The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding outside.

Here man is no longer the center of the world, only a witness, but a witness who is also a partner in the silent life of Nature, bound by secret affinities of the trees.

If even dying is to be made a social function, then, grant me the favor of sneaking out on tiptoe without disturbing the party.

Doffing the ego's safe glory, he finds his naked reality.

The only kind of dignity which is genuine is that which is not diminished by the indifference of others.