But only he who sees takes off his shoes. It is as hard to see one's self as to look backwards without turning around. What is troubling us is the tendency to believe that the mind is like a little man within. Thinking is more interesting than knowing, but less interesting than looking. Those who want the fewest things are nearest to the gods.
Every exit is an entry somewhere else.
Man only plays when in the full meaning of the word he is a man, and he is only completely a man when he plays. Whoever knows himself knows God. Work is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of those who work with joy. The aim of life is to live and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.