If I know what love is, it is because of you.

He was taught by the river. Incessantly, he learned from it. Most of all, he learned from it to listen, to pay close attention with a quiet heart, with a waiting, opened soul, without passion, without a wish, without judgement, without an opinion.

And whether this happiness lasted a hundred seconds or ten minutes, it was so far removed from time that it resembled every other genuine happiness as completely as one fluttering blue lycaenid butterfly resembles another.

People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.

I live in my dreams — that's what you sense. Other people live in dreams, but not in their own. That's the difference.

I sped through heaven and saw god at work. I suffered holy pains. I dropped all my defenses and was afraid of nothing in the world. I accepted all things and to all things I gave up my heart.

Those who are too lazy and comfortable to think for themselves and be their own judges obey the laws. Others sense their own laws within them.