Life could be limitless joy, if we would only take it for what it is, in the way it is given to us.

Friends we shall never be, you know that yourself. Whether we shall be the happiest or the wretchedest of people--that's in your hands.

For a few seconds they looked silently into each other's eyes, and the distant and impossible suddenly became near, possible, and inevitable.

the same question arose in every soul: "For what, for whom, must I kill and be killed?"... p982

The Christian churches and Christianity have nothing in common save in name: they are utterly hostile opposites. The churches are arrogance, violence, usurpation, rigidity, death; Christianity is humility, penitence, submissiveness, progress, life.

Here I am alive, and it's not my fault, so I have to try and get by as best I can without hurting anybody until death takes over.

Don't seek God in temples. He is close to you. He is within you. Only you should surrender to Him and you will rise above happiness and unhappiness.