A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it.
You say: “He lost his life” or “my life”, as if life were something that you can possess or lose. The truth is: you don’t have a life, you are life. The One Life, the one consciousness that pervades the entire universe and takes temporary form to experience itself as a stone or blade of grass, as an animal, a person, a star or a galaxy.
To find out what is truly individual in ourselves, profound reflection is needed; and suddenly we realise how uncommonly difficult the discovery of individuality is.
Patriotism is, fundamentally, a conviction that a particular country is the best in the world because you were born in it…
Every one of us has in him a continent of undiscovered character. Blessed is he who acts as Columbus to his own soul.
