We are not going in circles, we are going upwards. The path is a spiral; we have already climbed many steps.

It was morning; through the high window I saw the pure, bright blue of the sky as it hovered cheerfully over the long roofs of the neighboring houses. It too seemed full of joy, as if it had special plans, and had put on its finest clothes for the occasion.

The voices of all creatures are in the voices of the river.

A tree has something to say to us: Be still! Be still! Look at me!... Home is within you, or home is nowhere at all.

Because the world is so full of death and horror, I try again and again to console my heart and pick the flowers that grow in the midst of hell.

I called the world of phenomena an illusion, I called my eyes and my tongue an accident, valueless phenomena. No, that is all over; I have awakened, I have really awakened and I have just been born today.

Learn what is to be taken seriously and laugh at the rest.