The vulnerability of precious things is beautiful because vulnerability is a mark of existence. The destruction of Troy. The fall of the petals from fruit trees in blossom. To know that what is most precious is not rooted in existence - that is beautiful.

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

Uprooting is by far the most dangerous of the ills of human society, for it perpetuates itself.

The world is God's language to us.

The virtue of hope is an orientation of the soul towards a transformation after which it will be wholly and exclusively love.

For when two beings who are not friends are near each other there is no meeting, and when friends are far apart there is no separation.

Money destroys human roots wherever it is able to penetrate, by turning desire for gain into the sole motive. It easily manages to outweigh all other motives, because the effort it demands of the mind is so very much less. Nothing is so clear and so simple as a row of figures.