“You are your own god – and are surprised when you find that the wolf pack is hunting you across the desolate ice fields of winter.”

“Pray that your loneliness may spur you into finding something to live for, great enough to die for.”

“Your cravings as a human animal do not become a prayer just because it is God whom you ask to attend to them.”

“At every moment you choose yourself. But do you choose *your* self? Body and soul contain a thousand possibilities out of which you can build many I's. But in one of them is there a congruence of the elector and the elected. Only one--which you will never find until you have excluded all those superficial and fleeting possibilities of being and doing with which you toy, out of curiosity or wonder or greed, and which hinder you from casting anchor in the experience of the mystery of life, and the consciousness of the talent entrusted to you which is your *I*.”

“Forgiveness breaks the chain of causality because he who 'forgives' you--out of love--takes upon himself the consequences of what you have done. Forgiveness, therefore, always entails a sacrifice.The price you must pay for your own liberation through another's sacrifice is that you in turn must be willing to liberate in the same way, irrespective of the consequences to yourself.”

“Do not seek death. Death will find you. But seek the road which makes death a fulfillment.”

“Do not sea death. Death will find you. But seek the road which makes death a fulfillment.”