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When the superficial wearies me, it wearies me so much that I need an abyss in order to rest.
In a full heart there is room for everything, and in an empty heart there is room for nothing.
I have come one step away from everything. And here I stay, far from everything, one step away.
The little things are what is eternal, and the rest, all the rest, is brevity, extreme brevity.
Everything had been stripped of deceptions, that time. And that time I was afraid of everything.
I have been my own disciple and my own master. And I have been a good disciple but a bad master.
Human suffering, while it is asleep, is shapeless. If it is wakened it takes the form of the waker.
And if you find everything as soon as you look for it, you find it in vain, you look for it in vain.
I believe that the soul consists of its sufferings. For the soul that cures its own sufferings dies.
The less you think you are, the more you bear. And if you think you are nothing, you bear everything.
Suffering is above, not below. And everyone thinks that suffering is below. And everyone wants to rise.
They have stopped deceiving you, not loving you. And it seems to you that they have stopped loving you.
He who has made a thousand things and he who has made none, both feel the same desire: to make something.
If only I could leave everything as it is, without moving a single star or a single cloud. Oh, if only I could!
Whatever I take, I take too much or too little; I do not take the exact amount. The exact amount is no use to me.
What words say does not last. The words last. Because words are always the same, and what they say is never the same.
Man talks about everything, and he talks about everything as though the understanding of everything were all inside him.
My great day came and went, I do not know how. Because it did not pass through dawn when it came, nor through dusk when it went.
You know so much about me and yet you don't understand me. To know is not to understand. We could know everything and still not understand anything.
Without this ridiculous vanity that takes the form of self-display, and is part of everything and everyone, we would see nothing, and nothing would exist.
If you are good to this one and that one, this one and that one will say that you are good. If you are good to everyone, no one will say that you are good.
If a fanatic is willing to give his life for a cause, he's probably willing to give yours as well I know what I have given you. I do not know what you have received