When you let your mind go blank,' he said, 'or when you stop talking for a long time, something happens. Time becomes different. It goes away. It doesn't come back until you start to say something.

The body's pain is so paper-thin and insignificant compared to that of the mind.

The fear for oneself, that one can do something about. Upon it one can turn the light of awareness. But when one is no longer worrying about oneself, then the fear comes for other people and, after that, for the world. There are no fearless people, only fearless moments.

When you're young, you think that sex is the culmination of intimacy. Later you discover that it's barely the beginning.

Some thoughts have glue on them.----Smilla

Whining is a virus, a lethal, infectious, epidemic disease.

She was transparent, like a watercolor. As if she were about to dissolve in sound, in tones not yet created.