Great effort, fear and suffering sweet all the worthless chaff out of us.

Enslavement to your own weakness - be it an addiction to alcohol, or to a woman or to fame - it's degrading, and it means losing your dignity and your freedom.

Stupidity is falling pray to your own illusions.

Beauty is the door to another world.

Every type of evil we've got in us is the result of that one true illness of the human mind - that is, of being self-centered.

If there is such a thing as spiritual materialism, it is displayed in the urge to possess the mountains rather than to unravel and accept their mysteries.

Other extremely alluring traits in people are simplicity and naturalness. Simplicity and naturalness are never painfully obvious qualities, and yet which I come across them in a person, I get this sense of a firm foundation and of a direct access to truth.