We always try to interpret things in accordance with what we want and not as they are.

it is only courage on the path itself that makes the path appear

Why do so many people chose to spend their whole life destroying paths they didn't even want to follow, instead of following the one path that would lead them somewhere.

LIVE. If you live, god will live with you. If you refuse to run his risks, he'll retreat to that distant heaven and be merely a subject for philosophical speculation.

There is only one difference between teacher and disciple: the former is slightly less afraid than the latter.” ~Deidre O’Neill, known as Edde (p. 213)

And he never judges someone else's suffering.

Loneliness is the worst of all tortures, the worst of all sufferings.