Oh my only friend, my best beloved, the gates are open in my house—do not pass by like a dream.

True deliverance of man is the deliverance from Avidya i.e. ignorance. It is not in destroying anything that is positive and real, for that cannot be possible, but that which is negative, which obstructs our vision of truth.

To find God, you must welcome everything.

Men are cruel, but Man is kind.

The artist is the lover of nature; therefore he is her slave and her master.

Let the dead have the immortality of fame, but the living the immortality of love.

When we rejoice in our fullness, then we can part with our fruits with joy.