In each individual the spirit is made flesh, in each one the whole of creation suffers, in each one a Savior is crucified.

I have always been a great dreamer; in dreams I am more active than in my real life, and these shadows sapped me of health and energy.

Everything becomes a little different as soon as it is spoken out loud.

Not in his speech, not in his thoughts, I see his greatness, only in his actions, in his life.

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.

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.

My goal is this: always to put myself in the place in which I am best able to serve, wherever my gifts and qualities find the best soil to grow, the widest field of action. There is no other goal.