There is a miracle in every new beginning

If my life were not a dangerous, painful experiment, if I did not constantly skirt the abyss and feel the void under my feet, my life would have no meaning and I would not have been able to write anything.

The way to innocence, to the uncreated and to God leads on, not back, not back to the wolf or to the child, but ever further into sin, ever deeper into human life.

The bourgeois treasures nothing more highly than the self.... And so at the cost of intensity he achieves his own preservation andsecurity. His harvest is a quiet mind which he prefers to being possessed by God, as he prefers comfort to pleasure, convenience to liberty, and a pleasant temperature to that deathly inner consuming fire.

One cannot apologize for something fundamental, and a child feels and knows this as well and as deeply as any sage.

Your soul is the whole world.

If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us.