1. “Do not seek death. Death will find you. But seek the road which makes death a fulfillment.”
2. “Forgiveness is the answer to the child's dream of a miracle by which what is broken is made whole again, what is soiled is again made clean.”
3. “I am being driven forward / Into an unknown land. / The pass grows steeper, / The air colder and sharper. / A wind from my unknown goal / Stirs the strings / Of expectation. / Still the question: / Shall I ever get there? / There where life resounds, / A clear pure note / In the silence.”
4. “It is not we who seek the Way, / but the Way which seeks us. / That is why you are faithful to it, / even while you stand waiting, / so long as you are prepared, / and act the moment you are confronted by its demands.”
5. “It whispers: all is waiting here, / Kept safe for thee, year after year, / Beautiful songs in thousands; / Where hast thou been, where, where?”
6. “Maturity: Among other things, the unclouded happiness of the child at play who takes it for granted that he is at one with his playmates.”
7. “Never, "for the sake of peace and quiet," deny your own experience or convictions. The only kind of dignity which is genuine is that which is not diminished by the indifference of others. Pray that your loneliness may spur you into finding something to live for, great enough to die for. Never measure the height of a mountain until you have reached the top. Then you will see how low it was.”
8. “Never look down to test the ground before taking your next step; only he who keeps his eye fixed on the far horizon will find the right road.”
9. “Pray that your loneliness may spur you into finding something to live for, great enough to die for.”
10. “The longest journey is the journey inward.”
11. “The madman shouted in the market place. No one stopped to answer him. Thus it was confirmed that his thesis was incontrovertible.”
12. "We are not permitted to choose the frame of our destiny. But what we put into it is ours."
13. “You are the lens in the beam. You can only receive, give, and possess the light as the lens does. If you seek yourself, you rob the lens of its transparency. You will know life and be acknowledged by it according to your degree of transparency, your capacity, that is, to vanish as an end, and remain purely as a means.”
14. “Your position never gives you the right to command. It only imposes on you the duty of so living your life that others can receive your orders without being humiliated.”
