- "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.”
- "Solitude is independence.”
- "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.”
- "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.”
- "Nothing in the world is so distasteful to man as to go the way which leads to himself."
- "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."
- "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.”
- "Words do not express thoughts very well. They always become a little different immediately after they are expressed, a little distorted, a little foolish.”
- "It is possible for one never to transgress a single law and still be a bastard.”
- "Of the Western philosophers, I have been influenced most by Plato, Spinoza, Schopenhauer, and Nietzsche as well as the historian Jacob Burckhardt. But they did not influence me as much as Indian and, later, Chinese philosophy. I have always been on familiar and friendly terms with the fine arts, but my relationship to music has been more intimate and fruitful."
- "You are only afraid if you are not in harmony with yourself. People are afraid because they have never owned up to themselves.”
- "Only the ideas that we really live have any value.”
- "Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go.”
- "Happiness is a how; not a what. A talent, not an object.”
- "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."
- "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.”
- "People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.”
- "When someone is seeking... it happens quite easily that he only sees the thing he is seeking; that he is unable to find anything, unable to absorb anything, because he is only thinking of the thing he is seeking, because he has a goal, because he is obsessed with his goal. 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."
- "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.”
- "Within us there is someone who knows everything, wills everything, does everything better than we ourselves.”
- "One never reaches home, but wherever friendly paths intersect the whole world looks like home for a time.”
- "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.”
- "Our mind is capable of passing beyond the dividing line we have drawn for it. Beyond the pairs of opposites of which the world consists, other, new insights begin.”
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