I would be a fool to lose my heart to him, but I am tempted more each day.

This isn't kissing. This is savoring your taste.

Abduction is a romantic expression of passion.

It is difficult to resist a force of nature, Maman. His seduction is like all my senses struck by bolts of lightning.

What would it be like if I were free, not enslaved by my conditioning?

when you are about to give up just remember you have only two choices: stay in course or start all over again!

Openness, as currently conceived, is a way of making surrender to whatever is most powerful, or worship of vulgar success, look principled.

I am intelligent enough to be critical towards the West and take what I need and reject what is bad for me.

Leisure is a form of silence, not noiselessness. It is the silence of contemplation such as occurs when we let our minds rest on a rosebud, a child at play, a Divine mystery, or a waterfall.

The mind, like all other things, will become impaired, the sciences are its food,--they nourish, but at the same time they consume it.

Problems arise when you identify with your thoughts and emotions. Try to be a witness to the thoughts instead of being totally identified with them.

Paris has always seemed to me to be the only city in which one can live as one sees fit.

Heresy is what the minority believe; it is the name given by the powerful to the doctrines of the weak.