“I have discovered that all the unhappiness of men arises from one single fact, that they cannot stay quietly in their own chamber.”

“The greater part of all the mischief in the world arises from the fact that men do not sufficiently understand their own aims.”

“I arise from dreams of thee,And a spirit in my feetHas led me- who knows how?To thy chamber-window, Sweet!”

“If, after all, men cannot always make history have a meaning, they can always act so that their own lives have one.”

“My self-confidence comes from the fact that I have discovered my own dimensions. It does not behoove me to make myself smaller than I am.”

“All phenomena are embraced within a single self-knowing awareness.Even though they arise as the totality of samsara and nirvana,the phenomena of the world of appearances and possibilities—limitless, boundless—arise from basic space.Therefore, they are subsumed within basic space from which the first arise.”