When someone seeks," said Siddhartha, "then it easily happens that his eyes see only the thing that he seeks, and he is able to find nothing, to take in nothing because he always thinks only about the thing he is seeking, because he has one goal, because he is obsessed with his goal. Seeking means: having a goal. But finding means: being free, being open, having no goal.

Perhaps people like us cannot love. Ordinary people can - that is their secret.

You show the world as a complete, unbroken chain, an eternal chain, linked together by cause and effect.

I began to understand that suffering and disappointments and melancholy are there not to vex us or cheapen us or deprive us of our dignity but to mature and transfigure us.

Gratitude is not a virtue I believe in, and to me it seems hypocritical to expect it from a child.

Our god's name is Abraxas and he is God and Satan and he contains both the luminous and the dark world.

I, also, would like to look and smile, sit and walk like that, so free, so worthy, so restrained, so candid, so childlike and mysterious. A man only looks and walks like that when he has conquered his Self. I also will conquer my Self.