I learned through my body and soul that it was necessary for me to sin, that I needed lust, that I had to strive for property and experience nausea and the depths of despair in order to learn not to resist them, in order to learn to love the world.

For me, trees have always been the most penetrating preachers. I revere them when they live in tribes and families, in forests and groves.

All I really wanted was to try and live the life that was spontaneously welling up within me. Why was that so very difficult?

It is not our purpose to become each other; it is to recognize each other, to learn to see the other and honor him for what he is: each the other's opposite and complement.

The truth has a million faces, but there is only one truth.

A thousand times I was ready to regret and take back my rash statement - yet it had been the truth.

He was taught by the river. Incessantly, he learned from it. Most of all, he learned from it to listen, to pay close attention with a quiet heart, with a waiting, opened soul, without passion, without a wish, without judgement, without an opinion.