An individual is not distinct from his place. He is his place.

I not only have a body; I am this body.

Metaphysics is a science.

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.

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

I almost think that hope is for the soul what breathing is for the living organism. Where hope is lacking the soul dries up and withers.

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