One can only be silent and sit peacefully when one hath arrow and bow; otherwise one prateth and quarrelleth. Let your peace be a victory!

There is more wisdom in your body than in your best wisdom. And who then knows why your body needs precisely your best wisdom?

There is a lake that one day refused to flow away and threw up a dam at the place where it had before flowed out and since then this lake has always risen higher and higher. Perhaps the very act of renunciation provides us with the strength to bear it ; perhaps man will rise ever higher and higher when he no longer flows out into a God.

Every great love brings with it the cruel idea of killing the object of its love so that it may be removed once and for all from the wicked game of change: for love dreads change even more than annihilation.

one does not only wish to be understood when one writes; one wishes just as surely not to be understood.

When our brain feels too weak to deal with our opponent's objections, our heart answers by casting suspicion on their underlying motives.

If you look long enough into the void, the void begins to look back through you.