The most significant dimension of freedom is the freedom from one's own ego - in other words, from the feeling that I am the center of everything

Beauty is the door to another world.

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

The man coming back from the hard mountain trip is a wiser being, calmer and radiating inside. I'd say momentary liberated.

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.

I don't like egocentricity, which is something that I have arduously battled in myself my entire life.

Isn't a person who can live on nothing much stronger? I try to nurture that transformation in myself.