People think that to love is simple, but that to find the right object to love - or to be loved by - is difficult.

Well-being is possible to the degree to which one has overcome one's narcissism; to the degree to which one is open, responsive, sensitive, awake, empty.... Well-being means, finally, to drop one's Ego, to give up greed, to cease chasing after preservation and the aggrandizement of the Ego, to be and to experience one's self in the act of being, not in having, preserving, coveting, using.

In love the paradox occurs that two beings become one and yet remain two.

Is love an art? Then it requires knowledge and effort.

When an individual is awake, almost all he does and says is inspired by the model of behavior that the society imposes,even without his being aware of it.

The average American has separated his private life from his existence as a member of his society, and leaves that to the specialists in the government to take care of.

Man's main task in life is to give birth to himself.