Gratitude is not a virtue I believe in, and to me it seems hypocritical to expect it from a child..

Yes, I am going into the woods; I am going into the unity of all things..

He had loved and he had found himself. Most people love to lose themselves..

The diabolical thing about melancholy is not that it makes you ill but that it makes you conceited and shortsighted; yes almost arrogant. You lapse i….

He saw all these forms and faces in a thousand relationships become newly born. Each one was mortal, a passionate, painful example of all that is tra….

You know quite well, deep within you, that there is only a single magic, a single power, a single salvation...and that is called loving. Well, then, ….

Whoever wants music instead of noise, joy instead of pleasure, soul instead of gold, creative work instead of business, passion instead of foolery, f….

In my brain were stored a thousand pictures..

Seriousness is an accident of time. It consists of putting too high a value on time. In eternity there is no time. Eternity is a moment, just long en….

It was lovely, and tempting, to exert power over men and to shine before others, but power also had its perditions and perils..

... let us recall the well-known statement of a university professor in the Republic of the Massagetes: 'Not the faculty but His Excellency the Gene….

a person is never entirely holy or entirely sinful..

Only within yourself exists that other reality for which you long..

When someone is seeking, it happens quite easily that he only sees the thing that he is seeking; that he is unable to find anything, unable to absorb….

Om is the bow, the arrow is soul..

You are only afraid if you are not in harmony with yourself. People are afraid because they have never owned up to themselves..

There are always a few such people who demand the utmost of life and yet cannot come to terms with its stupidity and crudeness..

The sacred sense of beyond, of timelessness, of a world which had an eternal value and the substance of which was divine had been given back to me to….

It is good to taste for yourself everything you need to know. That worldly pleasures and wealth are not good things, I learned even as a child. I kne….

Without a mother, one cannot love. Without a mother, one cannot die..

He has robbed me, yet he has given me something of greater value . . . he has given to me myself..