As long as we are on earth, the love that unites us will bring us suffering by our very contact with one another, because this love is the resetting of a body of broken bones. Even saints cannot live with saints on this earth without some anguish. There are two things which men can do about the pain of disunion with other men. They can love or they can hate.

In humility is the greatest freedom. As long as you have to defend the imaginary self that you think is important, you lose your piece of heart. As soon as you compare that shadow with the shadows of other people, you lose all joy, because you have begun to trade in unrealities and there is no joy in things that do not exist.

Our whole life is a meditation of our last decision - the only decision that matters.

The truth that many people never understand until it is too late is that the more you try to avoid suffering, the more you suffer.

Violence is essentially wordless. and it can begin only where thought and rational communication have broken down.

We cannot achieve greatness unless we lose all interest in being great.

And that is why the man who wants to see clearly, before he will believe, never starts on the journey.