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.

I just have a dream mountain under the eyelids, this is my breath, my life.

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.

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.

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

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