For a while I shall still be leaving, looking back at you as you slip away into the magic islands of the mind. But for a while now all are alive, believing that in a single poignant hour we did say all that we could ever say in a great flowing out of radiant power. It was like seeing and then going blind.

Gaze into the fire, into the clouds, and as soon as the inner voices begin to speak... surrender to them. Don't ask first whether it's permitted, or would please your teachers or father or some god. You will ruin yourself if you do that.

A tree has something to say to us: Be still! Be still! Look at me!... Home is within you, or home is nowhere at all.

We create gods and struggle with them, and they bless us.

The world, as it is now, wants to die, wants to perish — and it will.

Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom.

Seriousness is an accident of time. It consists of putting too high a value on time. In eternity there is no time. Eternity is a moment, just long enough for a joke