This detachment (poverty, chastity, etc.) must not be mere amputation; everything which is shaken off must be simultaneously found again at a higher level.

On a grassroots level we say that man can touch more than he can grasp.

But however measurable, there is much more life in music than mathematics or logic ever dreamed of.

But a science is exact to the extent that its method measures up to and is adequate to its object.

You know you have loved someone when you have glimpsed in them that which is too beautiful to die.

Being and having in our society teaches us how to take possession of things, when it should rather initiate us in the art of letting go. For there is neither freedom nor real life without an apprenticeship in letting go.

A mystery is a problem that encroaches upon itself because the questioner becomes the object of the question. Getting to Mars is a problem. Falling in love is a mystery.