Your soul is the whole world.
Each man's life represents a road toward himself.
Loneliness is the way by which destiny endeavors to lead man to himself.
Meaning and reality were not hidden somewhere behind things, they were in them, in all of them.
A girl had bidden me eat and drink and sleep, and had shown me friendship and had laughed at me and had called me a silly little boy. And this wonderful friend had talked to me of the saints and shown me that even when I had outdone myself in absurdity I was not alone.
Wisdom is nothing but a preparation of the soul, a capacity, a secret art of thinking, feeling and breathing thoughts of unity at every moment of life.