To discover one's own spiritual poverty is to achieve a positive conquest by the spirit.

We must be free for the truth; and conversely, to be able to be open toward the truth may be our deepest freedom as human creatures.

Since the Greeks, Western man has believed that Being, all Being, is intelligible, that there is a reason for everythingand that the cosmos is, finally, intelligible. The Oriental, on the other hand, has accepted his existence within a universe that would appear to be meaningless, to the rational Western mind, and has lived with this meaninglessness. Hence the artistic form that seems natural to the Oriental is one that is just as formless or formal, as irrational, as life itself.

Anxiety is not fear, being afraid of this or that definite object, but the uncanny feeling of being afraid of nothing at all. It is precisely Nothingness that makes itself present and felt as the object of our dread.

We exist within the question of God.

The bond that attaches us to the life outside ourselves is the same bond that holds us to our own life.

To discover one's own spiritual poverty is to achieve a positive conquest by the spirit.