The problems of this world are only truly solved in two ways: by extinction or duplication.

Etymologically, 'patient' means sufferer.

The traditional metaphor for a spiritual investigation is that of the voyage or the journey. From this image I must dissociate myself. I do not consider myself a voyager, I have preferred to stand still.

Though collecting quotations could be considered as merely an ironic mimetism

I didn't think of myself as importing, I thought it was more interesting to write about things people didn't know about than what they did. When I became aware that I was in fact "importing", I stopped doing it.

That's what a community is: taking for granted certain assumptions, not having to start from zero every time. This is no longer true.

Although none of the rules for becoming more alive is valid, it is healthy to keep on formulating them.