When you run after your thoughts, you are like a dog chasing a stick: every time a stick is thrown, you run after it. Instead, be like a lion who, rather than chasing after the stick, turns to face the thrower. One only throws a stick at a lion once.

To demand that others should provide you textbook prognoses is like asking a strange woman to give birth to your baby. There are insights that can be born only of your own pain, and they are the most precious.

Within each of us there is a silence as vast as the universe. We long for it. We can return to it.

The mere understanding, however useful and indispensable, is the meanest faculty in the human mind and the most to be distrusted.

I never meet a ragged boy in the street without feeling that i may owe him a salute, for I know not what possibilities may be buttoned up under his coat.

Don't tire yourself more than need be, even at the price of founding a culture on the fatigue of your bones.