Man's experience in the world is to enable him to get out of its whirlpool.

Neither seek nor avoid, take what comes.

A burning passion coupled with absolute detachment is the key to all success.

I have lived long enough to learn how much there is I can really do without.... He is nearest to God who needs the fewest things.

A fool suffers, thinking, 'I have children! I have wealth!' One's self is not even one's own. How then are children? How then is wealth.

To live in the consciousness of the inevitability of suffering, of becoming enfeebled, of old age and of death, is impossible. We must free ourselves from life, from all possible life.