It is a pity that you students aren't fully aware of the luxury and abundance in which you live.

In the beginning was the myth.

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

Sentimentality is a basking in feelings that in reality you don't take seriously enough to make the slightest sacrifice to or ever translate into action.

One never reaches home, but wherever friendly paths intersect the whole world looks like home for a time.

Wisdom is not communicable. The wisdom which a wise man tries to communicate always sounds foolish.

Every sin already carries grace within in, all small children are potential old men, all sucklings have death within them, all dying people - eternal life. The Buddha exists in the robber and dice player; the robber exists in the Brahmin.