“Nirvana is not the blowing out of the candle. It is the extinguishing of the flame because day is come. ”

“Some will see your flame and want to blow it out...others will approach with a candle...”

“Go within every day and find the inner strengthso that the world will not blow your candle out.”

“He loved the desert because there the wind blew out one's footsteps like candle flames.”

“Death is not extinguishing the light; it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come.”

“It's like there are seven candles lit in my stomach. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven. Seven candles burning and smoking - lit - seven flames of doubt, fear, sorrow, pain, waste, hopelessness, despair. They turn my insides black with soot and ash. There is something at the back of my eyes - a pressure building, building, building - hot like the flames of seven candles, which no amount of breath can extinguish.”