You are not the oil, you are not the air - merely the point of combustion, the flash-point where the light is born. You are merely the lens in the beam. You can only receive, give, and possess the light as the lens does. If you seek yourself... you rob the lens of its transparency.

What makes loneliness an anguish Is not that I have no one to share my burden, But this:

Your body must become familiar with its death - in all its possible forms and degrees - as a self-evident, imminent, and emotionally neutral step on the way to…

Your cravings as a human animal do not become a prayer just because it is God whom you ask to attend to them.