Suffering is the sole origin of consciousness.

Obedience, fasting, and prayer are laughed at, yet only through them lies the way to real true freedom. I cut off my superfluous and unnecessary desires, I subdue my proud and wanton will and chastise it with obedience, and with God's help I attain freedom of spirit and with it spiritual joy.

That's just the point: an honest and sensitive man opens his heart, and the man of business goes on eating - and then he eats you up.

I am strongly convinced that not only too much consciousness but even any consciousness at all is a sickness.

Sorrow compressed my heart, and I felt I would die, and then... Well, then I woke up.

Luxuries are easy to take up but very difficult to give up

What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.