One should identify oneself with the universe itself. Everything that is less than the universe is subjected to suffering.

There are only two sorts of greatness: true greatness, which is of a spiritual order, and the old, old lie of world conquest. Conquest is an ersatz greatness.

Those who love a cause are those who love the life which has to be led in order to serve it.

The mysteries of faith are degraded if they are made into an object of affirmation and negation, when in reality they should be an object of contemplation.

Love: To feel with one's whole self the existence of another being.

Most works of art, like most wines, ought to be consumed in the district of their fabrication.

If there were no affliction in this world we might think we were in paradise.