By all means they try to hold me secure who love me in this world. But it is otherwise with thy love which is greater than theirs, and thout keepst me free. Lest I forgot them they never venture to leave me alone. But day passes by after day and thou art not seen. If I call not thee in my prayers, if I keep not thee in my heart, thy love for me still waits for my love.

He alone may chastise who loves.

We live in the world when we love it.

By touching you may kill, by keeping away you may possess.

Merely to exist is not enough.

that which is eternal within the moment only becomes shallow if spread out in time.

If you allow your mind to carp at all and sundry, it will turn against itself: the majority of our sorrows are self-inflicted.