Gaze into the fire, into the clouds, and as soon as the inner voices begin to speak... surrender to them. Don't ask first whether it's permitted, or would please your teachers or father or some god. You will ruin yourself if you do that.

What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us.

Every politician in the world is all for revolution, reason, and disarmament-but only in enemy countries, not in his own.

Every natural form is latent within us, originates in the soul whose essence is eternity, whose essence we cannot know but which most often intimates itself to us as the power to love and create.

. . . gentleness is stronger than severity, water is stronger than rock, love is stronger than force.

A magic dwells in each beginning, protecting us, telling us how to live.

Did all this make sense?