“We've lost our sense of ethics; we live in a world of small-mindedness, of gratification without happiness and actions without meaning.”

“Happiness is pure kitsch; we come into the world to suffer and learn.”

“After a few months without writing, months I've lived turned outward... I fear going deaf, not being able to hear the silence.”

“I have seen these persons speak unthinkingly, not realizing that to speak is also to be. Word and gesture are man's thought. We should not speak without reason.”

“Memory is fiction. We select the brightest and the darkest, ignoring what we are ashamed of, and so embroider the broad tapestry of our lives.”

“Let's sing our way out of this”

“ethics is at the center of both spiritual practice and social transformation. Without a strong ethical foundation, we inevitably fall into contradictions-between means and ends, between our actions and our ideals." (p. 9)”