The river is everywhere at the same time . . . everywhere and the present only exists for it, not the shadow of the past, nor the shadow of the future.

Learn what is to be taken seriously and laugh at 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.

To nobody can you communicate in words and teachings, what happened to you in your hour of enlightenment.

The bourgeois prefers comfort to pleasure, convenience to liberty, and a pleasant temperature to the deathly inner consuming fire.

All it has experienced, tasted, suffered: The course of years, generations of animals, Oppression, recovery, friendship of sun and - Wind Will pour forth each day in the song Of its rustling foliage, in the friendly Gesture of its gently swaying crown, In the delicate sweet scent of resinous Sap moistening the sleep-glued buds, And the eternal game of lights and Shadows it plays with itself, content.

Love can be begged, bought, or received as a gift, one can find it in the street, but one cannot steal it.