Death is more important than life. Life is just the trivial, just the superficial; death is deeper. Through death you grow to the real life, and through life you only reach death and nothing else.

You become angry because something or someone has done something against your expectations.

It cannot be called freedom, a freedom which can choose only the right and not the wrong; then that is not freedom.

Yes, when you see for the first time, a great laughter arises in you - the laughter about the whole ridiculousness of your misery, the laughter about the whole foolishness of your problems, the laughter about the whole absurdity of your suffering.

People say love is blind because they do not know what love is. I say unto you, only love has eyes; other than love, everything is blind.

Once you are afraid of death you are bound to be afraid of life. That`s why I am talking about this Hasidic approach. The whole approach consists of methods, ways and means of how to die - the art of dying is the art of living also. Dying as an ego is being born as a non `ego; dying as a part is being born as a whole; dying as man is a basic step towards being born as a God.

The mind is continuously running around. It never sits, it can't sit. Sitting seems to be death to it, and in a way it is.