It taught him how to listen -- how to listen with a quiet heart and a waiting soul, open soul, without passion, without desire, without judgment, without opinion.

To recognize causes is to think, and through thought alone feelings become knowledge and are not lost, but become real and begin to mature.

I do not consider myself less ignorant than most people. I have been and still am a seeker, but I have ceased to question stars and books. I have begun to listen to the teachings my blood whispers to me. My story is not a pleasant one; it is neither sweet nor harmonious, as invented stories are; it has the taste of nonsense and chaos, of madness and dreams -- like the lives of all men who stop deceiving themselves.

Once you are able to make your request in such a way that you will be quite certain of its fulfillment, then the fulfillment will come.

Within you there is a stillness and sanctuary to which you can retreat at any time and be yourself

When the suffering becomes acute enough, one goes forward.

All I really wanted was to try and live the life that was spontaneously welling up within me. Why was that so very difficult?