In the dominant Western religious system, the love of God is essentially the same as the belief in God, in God’s existence, God’s justice, God’s love. The love of God is essentially a thought experience. In the Eastern religions and in mysticism, the love of God is an intense feeling experience of oneness, inseparably linked with the expression of this love in every act of living.

Only the person who has faith in himself is able to be faithful to others.

The task we must set for ourselves is not to feel secure, but to be able to tolerate insecurity.

Mobilizing the love of life is the only force that can defeat the love for the dead.

I am convinced that boredom is one of the greatest tortures. If I were to imagine Hell, it would be the place where you were continually bored.

The whole life of the individual is nothing but the process of giving birth to himself; indeed, we should be fully born when we die.

To die is poignantly bitter, but the idea of having to die without having lived is unbearable.