“The path to enlightenment, to find out who you truly are, has to be taken alone.”

“They say that life is about balance. That it trades one sorrow for one joy and so forth until it finds some kind of harmony. Well, I want none of it. I've never been as dead as I was when I was balanced. I don't want life to be contained. I want it unbound, inspired. Alive.”

“Love demands patience, desire is restless; What color shall I paint the heart, until you savage it? You shall not ignore me when the time comes, I know, but I may turn to dust before the news reaches you.”

“Whoever can't see the whole in every part plays at blind man's bluff. A wise man tastes the entire Tigris in every sip.”

“Abschied und Wiedersehenhat jedes doch sein Glück:Geh tausendmal - und komm dannzehntausendmal zurück!”

“If there is a knower of tongues here, fetch him;There's a stranger in the cityAnd he has many things to say.”

“He gave me heaven and earth, and assumed I'd be satisfied;Actually I was too embarrassed to argue.The spiritual seekers are tired, two or three at each stage of the path.The rest who have given up never knew your address at all.There are so many in this gathering who wish the candle well.But if the being of the candle is melting, what can the sorrow-sharers do?”