I live in my dreams — that's what you sense. Other people live in dreams, but not in their own. That's the difference.

I can think. I can wait. I can fast.

The world was beautiful when looked at in this way-without any seeking, so simple, so childlike.

It taught him how to listen -- how to listen with a quiet heart and a waiting soul, open soul, without passion, without desire, without judgment, without opinion.

Each man had only one genuine vocation - to find the way to himself....His task was to discover his own destiny - not an arbitrary one - and to live it out wholly and resolutely within himself. Everything else was only a would-be existence, an attempt at evasion, a flight back to the ideals of the masses, conformity and fear of one's own inwardness.

The true profession of a man is to find his way to himself.

Love must not entreat,' she added, 'or demand. Love must have the strength to become certain within itself. Then it ceases merely to be attracted and begins to attract.