Drawn to childhood, the old man will seek it in a thousand different ways.

A disciple came to the celebrated Master of the Good Name with a question. “Rabbi, how are we to distinguish between a true master and a fake?” And the master of the good name said, “When you meet a person who poses as a master, ask him a question: whether he knows how to purify your thoughts. If he says that he knows, then he is a fake.

When you see the abyss, and we have looked into it, then what? There isn't much room at the edge -- one person, another, not many. If you are there, others cannot be there. If you are there, you become a protective wall. What happens? You become part of t

I belong to a tradition that believes that the death of a single child is a blemish on creation.

Writing should not be routine; writing should actually be the opposite of procedural because otherwise the written word would become a routine word.

I have to be self-conscious of what I'm trying to do with my life.

I think [teacher] is the noblest profession.