Watch birth and death: The lotus has already Opened its flower.
[T]he very color of the air in the place I was born was different, the smell of the earth was special, redolent with memories of my parents.
We who are born into this age of freedom and independence and the self must undergo this loneliness. It is the price we pay for these times of ours.
Until then I had floated at random, like a rootless aquatic plant, relying entirely on the opinions of others.
Over the wintry forest, winds howl in rage with no leaves to blow.
(on his thought on excessive nationalism) ...the country was no doubt very important, but that there was no need at all to act the clown by talking about it all the time, as if one were completely possessed by it.
Use your intellect to guide you, and you will end up putting people off. Rely on your emotions, and you will forever be pushed around. Force your will on others, and you will live in constant tension. There is no getting around it—people are hard t...
Words are not meant to stir the air only: they are capable of moving greater things.
