I do not read advertisements. I would spend all of my time wanting things.

In a certain sense you deny the existence of this world. You explain life as a state of rest, a state of rest in motion.

No matter how much you keep encouraging someone who is blindfolded to stare through the cloth, he still won’t see a thing.".

Productivity is being able to do things that you were never able to do before.

Leop­ards break in­to the tem­ple and drink all the sac­ri­fi­cial ves­sels dry; it keeps hap­pen­ing; in the end, it can be cal­cu­lat­ed in ad­vance and is in­cor­po­rat­ed in­to the rit­ual.

You are at once both the quiet and the confusion of my heart.

The Fathers of the Church were not afraid to go out into the desert because they had a richness in their hearts. But we, with richness all around us, are afraid, because the desert is in our hearts.