"Friend, hope for the Guest while you are alive. Jump into experience while you are alive! Think . . . and think . . . while you are alive. What you call 'salvation' belongs to the time before death . …"

"My mind is a mad elephant, and my body is a cage; the elephant wants to break free, but the cage holds it back."

"The Pandits and the Mullahs read their books endlessly, but they never dive into the sea."

"Grief is the ink with which joy rewrites the soul's story."

"The water in the pitcher is not different from the water in the ocean."