“One of the few blessings of living in an age of anxiety is that we are forced to become aware of ourselves.”

“There is a certain part of all of us that lives outside of time. Perhaps we become aware of our age only at exceptional moments and most of the time we are ageless.”

“We exist for ourselves, perhaps, and at times we even have a glimmer of who we are, but in the end we can never be sure, and as our lives go on, we become more and more opaque to ourselves, more and more aware of our own incoherence. No one can cross the boundary into another – for the simple reason that no one can gain access to himself.”

“Conditioned Awareness is where we live our lives in guilt over the past and anxiety over the future and never get to experience the present.”

“Perhaps we become aware of our age only at exceptional moments and most of the time we are ageless.”

“Time is a river...and books are boats. Many volumes start down that stream, only to be wrecked and lost beyond recall in its sands. Only a few, a very few, endure the testings of time and live to bless the ages following.”