Like one who has eaten and drunk too much and vomits painfully and then feels better, so did the restless man wish he could rid himself with one terrific heave of these pleasures, of these habits of this entirely senseless life.

Youth ends when egotism does; maturity begins when one lives for others.

Your soul is the whole world.

When the suffering becomes acute enough, one goes forward.

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

One day I would be a better hand at the game. One day I would learn how to laugh. Pablo was waiting for me, and Mozart too.

When all the Self was conquered and dead, when all passions and desires were silent, then the last must awaken, the innermost of Being that is no longer Self - the great secret!