Trees are sanctuaries. Whoever knows how to speak to them, whoever knows how to listen to them, can learn the truth. They do not preach learning and precepts, they preach, undeterred by particulars, the ancient law of life.

He saw that the water continually flowed and flowed and yet it was always there; it was always the same and yet every moment it was new.

Those who direct the maximum force of their desires toward the center, toward true being, toward perfection, seem quieter than the passionate souls because the flame of their fervor cannot always be seen.

You learned people and artists have, no doubt, all sorts of superior things in your heads; but you're human beings like the rest of us, and we, too, have our dreams and fancies.

Eternity is a mere moment, just long enough for a joke.

No permanence is ours, we are a wave that flows to fit whatever form it finds.

What he had not learned, however, was this: to find contentment in himself and his own life