The Wisdom of Insecurity: A Message for an Age of Anxiety

it is just the feeling of being an isolated “I” which makes me feel lonely and afraid.

To be passing is to live; to remain and continue is to die. “

What you know, what you are actually aware of, is just what is happening at this moment, and no more.

sorry-go-round.

Music is a delight because of its rhythm and flow. Yet the moment you arrest the flow and prolong a note or chord beyond its time, the rhythm is destroyed. Because life is likewise a flowing process, change and death are its necessary parts. To work for their exclusion is to work against life.

When each moment becomes an expectation life is deprived of fulfillment,

If happiness always depends on something expected in the future, we are chasing a will-o’-the-wisp that ever eludes our grasp, until the future, and ourselves, vanish into the abyss of death.

You will not see the sky if you have covered the glass with blue paint.

Faith, on the other hand, is an unreserved opening of the mind to the truth, whatever it may turn out to be.