She was saved from prettiness by the intensity of her gaze.

How fragile we are under the sheltering sky. Behind the sheltering sky is a vast dark universe, and we're just so small.

Life is lived only once. And the less seriously the better.

Everyone is isolated from everyone else. The concept of society is like a cushion to protect us from the knowledge of that isolation. A fiction that serves as an anesthetic.

The sky hides the night behind it and shelters the people beneath from the horror that lies above.

A black star appears, a point of darkness in the night sky's clarity. Point of darkness and gateway to repose. Reach out, pierce the fine fabric of the sheltering sky, take repose.

Security is a false God. Begin to make sacrifices to it and you are lost.

Illness reduces man to his basic state: a cloaca in which the chemical processes continue. The meaningless hegemony of the involuntary.

The only effort worth making is the one it takes to learn the geography of one's own nature.

If people and their manner of living were alike everywhere, there would not be much point in moving from one place to another.

Since the world began has any man ever been able to know what would happen tomorrow? The world of men is today. I'm asking you to open your heart today. Tomorrow belongs to Allah.

Stop feeling sorry for yourself and you will be happy.

There is no such thing as ‘right’ or ‘wrong’ in the world whatsoever. It is just the impurity of the vision. It is indeed illusion [mithyatva]

What appears strange and complex becomes stranger and more complicated once you begin to investigate it. That's the true nature of the world.

Never to have to think of yourself as white is a luxory that makes you deeply stupid.

Settle one difficulty, and you keep a hundred away.

Word of mouth works now, much more than ever. @-reply every single person.

The human race sleepwalked to oblivion, thinking only of the corporate logos on it's shroud.

You know, face painting in non-Western cultures is a sign of collectivism, is a sign of one representing the community, it's not unique at all.

Let what is irksome become habitual, no more will it trouble you.

...counselling man to treat her as a slave while persuading her that she is a queen.