I feel like a small battlefield in which the problems, or some of the problems, of our time are being fought out. All one can hope to do is keep ones….

I really see no other solution than to turn inwards and to root out all the rottenness there. I no longer believe that we can change anything in the ….

How rash to assert that man shapes his own destiny. All he can do is determine his inner responses..

I do believe it is possible to create, even without ever writing a word or painting a picture, by simply molding one’s inner life. And that too is a ….

As life becomes harder and more threatening, it also becomes richer, because the fewer expectations we have, the more good things of life become unex….

All disasters stem from us. Why is there a war? Perhaps because now and then I might be inclined to snap at my neighbour. Because I and my neighbour ….

Sometimes I feel that every word spoken and every gesture made merely serve to exacerbate misunderstandings. Then what I would really like is to esca….

It is the only thing we can do. Each of us must turn inward and destroy in himself all that he thinks he ought to destroy in others. And remember tha….

By 'coming to terms with life' I mean: the reality of death has become a definite part of my life; my life has, so to speak, been extended by death, ….

The externals are simply so many props; everything we need is within us..

ought we not, from time to time, open ourselves up to cosmic sadness? ... Give your sorrow all the space and shelter in yourself that is its due, for….

Before, I always lived in anticipation . . . that it was all a preparation for something else, something "greater," more "genuine." But that feeling ….

The more peace there is in us, the more peace there will be in our troubled world..

A desire to kneel down sometimes pulses through my body, or rather it is as if my body has been meant and made for the act of kneeling. Sometimes, in….

We human beings cause monstrous conditions, but precisely because we cause them we soon learn to adapt ourselves to them. Only if we become such that….

Ultimately, we have just one moral duty: to reclaim large areas of peace in ourselves, more and more peace, and to reflect it towards others. And the….

Thinking gets you nowhere. It may be a fine and noble aid in academic studies, but you can't think your way out of emotional difficulties. That takes….

Such words as 'God' and 'Death' and 'Suffering' and 'Eternity' are best forgotten. We have to become as simple and as wordless as the growing corn or….

Never give up, never escape, take everything in, and perhaps suffer, that's not too awful either, but never, never give up..

And now that I don't want to own anything any more and am free, now I suddenly own everything, now my inner riches are immeasurable..

Despite everything, life is full of beauty and meaning..