Thought is so cunning, so clever, that it distorts everything for its own convenience.

When one has an image about oneself one is surely insane, one lives in a world of illusion.

The significance of life is living.

If you have no love, do what you will - go after all the gods on earth, do all the social activities, try to reform the poor, the politics, write books, write poems - you are a dead human being. Without love your problems will increase, multiply endlessly.

To be absolutely nothing is to be beyond measure.

If you would listen, sir, in the sense of being aware of your conflicts and contradictions without forcing them into any particular pattern of thought, perhaps they might altogether cease.

A man who is really earnest must begin with himself, he must be passively aware of all his thoughts, feelings and actions.