Either you're the one erasing or you're the one being erased.
One's own self is well hidden from one's own self; of all mines of treasure, one's own is the last to be dug up.
And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.
Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.
Sometimes people don't want to hear the truth because they don't want their illusions destroyed.
There are two different types of people in the world, those who want to know, and those who want to believe.
I was in darkness, but I took three steps and found myself in paradise. The first step was a good thought, the second, a good word; and the third, a good deed.
The painter is not an intellectual if, when he has painted a nude woman, he gives us the idea that she is just about to put her clothes back on.
He who has the courage to laugh is almost as much a master of the world as he who is ready to die.
The more research you do, the more at ease you are in the world you're writing about. It doesn't encumber you, it makes you free.
Words that arise spontaneously out of the state of presence are charged with spiritual power: the power to awaken.