He is one of those who has had the wilderness for a pillow, and called a star his brother. Alone. But loneliness can be a communion.

Be grateful as your deeds become less and less associated with your name, as your feet ever more lightly tread the earth.

At some moment I did answer "Yes" to someone or something. And from that hour on I was certain that existence is meaningful.

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

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.

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.

The longest journey is the journey inward.