The biggest ego trip is getting rid of your ego, and of course the joke of it all is that your ego does not exist.

Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.

Nothing satisfies an individual incapable of enjoyment.

I owe my solitude to other people.

What keeps us from happiness is our inability to fully inhabit the present

You can’t have something without nothing.

Faith is, above all, openness; an act of trust in the unknown.

If you love a person, you say to that person, “Look, I love you, whatever that may be. I’ve seen quite a bit of it and I know there’s lots that I haven’t seen, but still it’s you and I want you to be what you want to be. And I won’t be happy if

The power of memories and expectations is such that for most human beings, the past and the future are not as real, but rather more real than the present.

Nothing is more creative than death, since it has the whole secret of life. It means that the past must be abandoned, that the unknown cannot be avoided, that ‘I’ cannot continue, and that nothing can be ultimately fixed. When a man knows this, he lives for the first time in his life. By holding