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

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.

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

Metaphysics is a science.

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

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

The wise man knows how to run his life so that contemplation is possible.