Being human means having doubts and yet still continuing on your path.

When we meet someone and fall in love, we have a sense that the whole universe is on our side. And yet if something goes wrong, there is nothing left! How is it possible for the beauty that was there only minutes before to vanish so quickly? Life moves very fast. It rushes from heaven to hell in a matter of seconds.

He knows that it is impossible to live in a state of complete relaxation.

I was not I, I was nothing - and that seemed to me quite marvelous.

The world has never been as divided as it is now, what with religious wars, genocides, a lack of respect for the planet, economic crisis, depression, poverty, with everyone wanting instant solutions to at least some of the world's problems or their own. And things only look bleaker as we head into future.

It's only those who are persistent and willing to study things deeply, who achieve the master work.

In reality things reveal nothing to us. It is people who, by looking into at things, discover a way of penetrating the Soul of the World.