Even the merest gesture is holy if it is filled with faith.

From a certain point onward there is no longer any turning back. That is the point that must be reached.

Time is short, my strength is limited, the office is a horror, the apartment is noisy, and if a pleasant, straightforward life is not possible, then one must try to wriggle through by subtle manoeuvres.

There are two main human sins from which all the others derive: impatience and indolence. It was because of impatience that they were expelled from Paradise; it is because of indolence that they do not return. Yet perhaps there is only one major sin: impatience. Because of impatience they were expelled, because of impatience they do not return.

The experience of life consists of the experience which the spirit has of itself in matter and as matter, in mind and as mind, in emotion, as emotion, etc.

What if I slept a little more and forgot about all this nonsense.

One advantage in keeping a diary is that you become aware with reassuring clarity of the changes which you constantly suffer.