Anyone who cannot come to terms with his life while he is alive needs one hand to ward off a little his despair over his fate... but with his other hand he can note down what he sees among the ruins.
The thornbush is the old obstacle in the road. It must catch fire if you want to go further.
Woman, or more precisely put, perhaps, marriage, is the representative of life with which you are meant to come to terms.
Productivity is being able to do things that you were never able to do before.
Self-control means wanting to be effective at some random point in the infinite radiations of my spiritual existence.
How can one take delight in the world unless one flees to it for refuge?
He who seeks does not find, but he who does not seek will be found.
We are separated from God on two sides; the Fall separates us from Him, the Tree of Life separates Him from us.
One of the first signs of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die.
So long as you have food in your mouth, you have solved all questions for the time being.
You can hold yourself back from the sufferings of the world, that is something you are free to do and it accords with your nature, but perhaps this very holding back is the one suffering you could avoid.
