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.

An enlightened man had but one duty - to seek the way to himself, to reach inner certainty, to grope his way forward, no matter where it led.

Art is the contemplation of the world in a state of grace.

What he had not learned, however, was this: to find contentment in himself and his own life

This happiness consisted of nothing else but the harmony of the few things around me with my own existence, a feeling of contentment and well-being that needed no changes and no intensification.

Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom.

Only the ideas that we really live have any value.