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.

If I know what love is, it is because of you.

And whether this happiness lasted a hundred seconds or ten minutes, it was so far removed from time that it resembled every other genuine happiness as completely as one fluttering blue lycaenid butterfly resembles another.

I can think. I can wait. I can fast.

When all the Self was conquered and dead, when all passions and desires were silent, then the last must awaken, the innermost of Being that is no longer Self - the great secret!

Words do not express thoughts very well. They always become a little different immediately after they are expressed, a little distorted, a little foolish.

All the books of the world full of thoughts and poems are nothing in comparison to a minute of sobbing, when feeling surges in waves, the soul feels itself profoundly and finds itself. Tears are the melting ice of snow. All angels are close to the crying person.