When thought races ahead of Being, a civilization is racing towards destruction.

We are born for meaning, not pleasure, unless it is pleasure that is steeped in meaning.

As my personal explorations continued, I experienced this quality of inner reality more and more and could no longer doubt that the meaning of God lay in this direction. At the same time, these undeniable experiences lit up and were in turn illuminated by all the philosophical and historical knowledge I had by then amassed and I began to understand in an entirely new way the teachings of both Judaism and Christianity as well as the teachings of Buddhism, Hinduism and Islam.

To be totally engaged with all my functions and all my faculties and all my capacities in life to me that would be success.

What is it that makes all of us end each day with the sense that we have not lived our time, but have been lived, used by what we do?

To search means, first, I need Being, Truth; second, I do not know where to find it; and third, an action takes place that is not based on fantasies of certainty— while at the same time a waiting takes place that is rooted not in wishful thinking but in a deep sense of urgency.

When thought races ahead of Being, a civilization is racing towards destruction.