The salvation of life lies in seeing each object in its essence and its entirety, discerning both the material and the causal: in applying one's whole soul to doing right and speaking the truth. There remains only the enjoyment of living a linked succession of good deeds, with not the slightest gap between them. p121

Make no difference in doing thy duty whether thou art shivering or warm, drowsy or sleep-satisfied, defamed or extolled, dying or anything else. For the act of dying too is one of the acts of life. So it is enough in this also to get the work in hand done well.

Fatigue is here, in my body, in my legs and eyes. That is what gets you in the end. Faith is only a word, embroidered.

What fiendishness went on in kitchens across the country, in the name of providing food!

They are boiling with the pressured energy of explosive forces confined in a small space, and with the fervor of all religious movements in their early, purist stages. It is not enough to give lip service and to believe in equal pay: there has to be a conversion, from the heart. Or so they imply.

not the shore but an aquarium filled with exhausted water and warm seaweed

Nothing changes instantaneously: in a gradually heating bathtub you'd be boiled to death before you knew it.

it is better to journey than to arrive, as long as we journey in firm faith and for selfless ends.

How long do you expect me to wait while you cauterize your senses, one after another turning yourself to an impervious glass tower?

It is better to journey than to arrive, as long as we journey in firm faith and for selfless ends.

In this world you have to take your bits and ends of kindness where you can find them, as they do not grow on trees.

Don't spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door.