“Use your intellect to guide you, and you will end up putting peopleoff. Rely on your emotions, and you will forever be pushed around.Force your will on others, and you will live in constant tension...”

“Watch birth and death:The lotus has alreadyOpened its flower.”

“As I see it, youre always unsteady on your legs. You cant find your courage. Youll go to any length to avoid what displeases you, and you gallop after whatever you want. And why is that? There is n...”

“I may be someone who was always destined to spend my life wandering aimlessly. I cant settle down. The cruel part is, I want to settle down and the world wont let me. So what choice do I have but t...”

“Reflection may be essential to a scholar, but its taboo in social intercourse.”

“People may make fun of me because Im wearing something odd, but its still good to be alive.”

“I wandered in the streets, what with the noise the people made, the number of the coaches, the running of the footmen, the swaggering of great courtiers, and the thrusting aside of everybody, many ...”

“I do feel that Ive managed to make something I could maybe call my worldover timelittle by little. And when Im inside it, to some extent, I feel kind of relieved. But the very fact I felt I had to ...”

“The question is why one should be so inwardly preoccupied at all. Why not reach out to others in love and solidarity or peer into the natural world for some glimmer of understanding? Why retreat in...”

“The more you overthink the less you will understand.”

“This time, something different happens, though. Its the daydreaming that does it. Im doing the usualthingimagining in tiny detail the entire course of the relationship, from first kiss, to bed, to ...”

“You know, it is a little known fact that thinking is entirely overrated. The world would be a much better place if we all did a lot less of it.”