Those who cannot think or take responsibility for themselves need, and clamor for, a leader.

What constitutes a real, live human being is more of a mystery than ever these days, and men each one of whom is a valuable, unique experiment on the part of nature are shot down wholesale.

For me, trees have always been the most penetrating preachers. I revere them when they live in tribes and families, in forests and groves.

. . . gentleness is stronger than severity, water is stronger than rock, love is stronger than force.

He had loved and he had found himself. Most people love to lose themselves.

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.

We must become so alone, so utterly alone, that we withdraw into our innermost self. It is a way of bitter suffering. But then our solitude is overcome, we are no longer alone, for we find that our innermost self is the spirit, that it is God, the indivisible. And suddenly we find ourselves in the midst of the world, yet undisturbed by its multiplicity, for our innermost soul we know ourselves to be one with all being.