Spirituality is, ultimately, about what we do with that desire. What we do with our longings, both in terms of handling the pain and the hope they bring us, that is our spirituality.

Spirituality is about what we do about the fire inside of us, about how we channel our eros.

Charity is appeased when some rich person gives money to the poor while justice asks why one person can be that rich when so many are poor.

Every choice is a renunciation. Indeed. Every choice is a thousand renunciations. To choose one thing is to turn one's back on many others.

A rainbow must have its seven colours in order for it to meet beauty. Plurality is beauty and harmony is what adds more lifespan to that beauty

Kurt pick his way around testing for heat before taking each step and avoiding places where the ash was heaps up.

its badness is so potent that it seems to undermine the very idea of literature, to expose the whole endeavour of making art out of language as essentially and irredeemably fraudulent

Thoughts are just moving through consciousness. They have no power. Nothing has reality until you reach it, grab it, and somehow impregnate it with the power of belief.

All people deserve to be treated with dignity and have their human rights respected, no matter who they are or whom they love.

Our way of managing and leading, rewarding and judging people is totally out of tune with the fact that we are all individuals.

The first step in healing is to put the focus on what's alive now, not what happened in the past.

It is so much worse to be a mediocre artist than to be a mediocre post-office clerk.

The goal of our life’s effort is to reach the other shore, Nirvana. Prajna paramita, the true wisdom of life, is that in each step of the way, the other shore is actually reached.

Do not sanction an absurdity.