As a white candle / In a holy place, / So is the beauty / Of an aged face

What am I? Am I the bulb that carries the light, or am I the light of which the bulb is a vehicle?

Your life is the fruit of your own doing. You have no one to blame but yourself... The problem is not to blame or explain but to handle the life that arises... If you say no to a single factor in your life, you have unraveled the whole thing... The demon that you swallow gives you its power, and the greater life's pain, the greater life's reply.

The best things cannot be told because they transcend thought. The second best are misunderstood because they are the thoughts that are supposed to refer to that which cannot be thought about. The third best are what we talk about.

Suddenly you’re ripped into being alive. And life is pain, and life is suffering, and life is horror, but my god you’re alive and its spectacular.

When an idea is important to a person or culture it will find its way into imagery.

It's only when a man tames his own demons that he becomes the king of himself if not of the world.