Because the world is so full of death and horror, I try again and again to console my heart and pick the flowers that grow in the midst of hell.

God does not send us despair in order to kill us; he sends it in order to awaken us to new life.

Faith is stronger than so-called reality.

I have no desire to walk on water," said Siddhartha. "Let the old shamans satisfy themselves with such skills".

All the women of this fevered night, all that I had danced with, all whom I had kindled or who have kindled me, all whom I had courted, all who had clung to me with longing, all whom I had followed with enraptured eyes were melted together and had become one, the one whom I held in my arms.

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.

Nothing was, nothing will be, everything has reality and presence