Seeking means to have a goal; but finding means to be free, to be receptive, to have no goal. You, O worthy one, are perhaps indeed a seeker, for in striving towards your goal, you do not see many things that are under your nose. |
Solitude is independence. |
Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go. |
The bourgeois prefers comfort to pleasure, convenience to liberty, and a pleasant temperature to the deathly inner consuming fire |
The call of death is a call of love. Death can be sweet if we answer it in the affirmative, if we accept it as one of the great eternal forms of life and transformation. |
The man of power is ruined by power, the man of money by money, the submissive man by subservience, the pleasure seeker by pleasure. |
The truth has a million faces, but there is only one truth. |
The truth is lived, not taught. |
There is, so I believe, in the essence of everything, something that we cannot call learning. There is, my friend, only a knowledge - that is everywhere. |
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. |
Those who cannot think or take responsibility for themselves need, and clamor for, a leader. |
To be able to throw one's self away for the sake of a moment, to be able to sacrifice years for a woman's smile - that is happiness |
To study history means submitting to chaos and nevertheless retaining faith in order and meaning. It is a very serious task, young man, and possibly a tragic one. |
What constitutes a real, live human being is more of a mystery than ever these days, and men - each one of whom is a valuable, unique experiment on the part of nature - are shot down wholesale. |
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. |