Of course when one opens a coffin, one destroys it. Nevertheless a delicate odour of cedarwood will come forth.

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All of this had always existed, and he had not seen it; he had not been with it. Now he was with it, he was part of it. Light and shadow ran through his eyes, stars and moon ran through his heart.

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For the first time in my life I tasted death, and death tasted bitter, for death is birth, is fear and dread of some terrible renewal.

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Searching means having a goal. But finding means: being free, standing open, having no goal... A seeker does not see some things that are close to his eyes.

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An enlightened man had but one duty - to seek the way to himself, to reach inner certainty, to grope his way forward, no matter where it led.

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What you search is not necessarily the same as what you find. When you let go of the searching, you start finding.

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Youth is the most difficult time of life. For example, suicide rarely occurs amongst old people.

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Love can be cleaned, bought, received as a gift, found on the street, but it cannot be snatched away by force.

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At one time I had given much thought to why men were so very rarely capable of living for an ideal. Now I saw that many, no, all men were capable of dying for one.

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The most lively young people become the best old people, not those who pretend to be as wise as grandfathers while they are still in school.

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