It is very difficult also to sacrifice one's suffering. A man will renounce any pleasures you like but he will not give up his suffering.

If a man could understand all the horror of the lives of ordinary people who are turning around in a circle of insignificant interests and insignificant aims, if he could understand what they are losing, he would understand that there can only be one thing that is serious for him - to escape from the general law, to be free. What can be serious for a man in prison who is condemned to death? Only one thing: How to save himself, how to escape: nothing else is serious.

It is the same with everything else, with food, with pleasures, with sleep; with everything there is a limit to what is necessary. After this "sin" begins. This is something that must be grasped, a "sin" is something which is not necessary.

Take the understanding of the East and the knowledge of the West-and then seek.

Two things in life are infinite; the stupidity of man and the mercy of God.

The first reason for people's slavery is our ignorance, and above all, our ignorance of ourselves.

If you meditate and the Devil comes, make the Devil meditate.