- "I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value."
- "If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us. "
- "It is not our purpose to become each other; it is to recognize each other, to learn to see the other and honor him for what he is."
- "Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, be fortified by it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it."
- "Meaning and reality were not hidden somewhere behind things, they were in them, in all of them."
- "Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go."
- "There's no reality except the one contained within us. That's why so many people live an unreal life. They take images outside them for reality and never allow the world within them to assert itself."
- "What could I say to you that would be of value, except that perhaps you seek too much, that as a result of your seeking you cannot find."
- "The truth is lived, not taught"
- "Oh, love isn't there to make us happy. I believe it exists to show us how much we can endure."
- "If I know what love is, it is because of you."
- "Words do not express thoughts very well; every thing immediately becomes a little different, a little distorted, a little foolish. And yet it also pleases me and seems right that what is of value and wisdom of one man seems nonsense to another."
- "I am a poet, a seeker, and a confessor, obligated to truth and sincerity. I have a charge, albeit small and confined: to help other seekers to understand and to cope with the world, if only by assuring them that they are not alone."
may 2 2011 ∞
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