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“Winter comes, you wait for summer; summer comes, you wait for winter! You wait to retire, you wait for the government to change, you wait for the storm to pass, the fog to clear and the sun to come out, and you wait and wait! Don't wait, my friend, aren't you tired of waiting? You've grown old waiting! Live without waiting, leave the winter, the fog, this and that, don't wait!”

“You're sitting in the harbour waiting! The ship you were waiting for did not come, the boat you expected did not come, the things you expected did not come and you are still in the harbour, you are still waiting! Don't you understand, the whole problem is waiting! The universe doesn't want you to wait, the universe is waiting for action from you, so don't wait, go somewhere else because waiting rots you!”

“Sometimes there is no time to wait for the sea to calm down! If you have to reach your target, let your voyage start and let the storm be your path!”

“No better school invented yet than the school of loneliness in the matters of understanding our deep-self!”

“If everyone and everything living in the world can manage to look at the world through the eyes of everyone else and everything else, the world can truly become a beautiful place! Look at the world through the eyes of a deer, look at it through the eyes of a Christian, look at it through the eyes of a Muslim, look at it through the eyes of a Jew, look at it through the eyes of a flower or an insect! Abandon yourself, enter the minds of others and look at the world from there, understand everyone and everything, and find a solution accordingly!”

“Life is sometimes to be a monkey with a monkey, to be a dog with a dog, a bird with a bird, water with water, tree with tree! It is a great wisdom to interiorize the mind of others, in other words, to make their spirit our own spirit!”

“Loneliness is not about numbers because you can be among ten people and still feel lonely, or you can feel crowded as if there were ten people around you when you were alone! Loneliness is not about numbers, it is only about being in an environment that cannot connect with your soul, or being in a place where there are people who cannot connect with your ideas, who do not look at the same horizons as you!”

“There are degrees of loneliness: If there is no one around you, you are alone; if there are no animals, insects, etc. around you, you are more alone; if you don't have any objects around you, you are much more alone, and if you are in the void of space, you are even more lonely! But your loneliest state is when you cannot even talk to yourself in your mind, because as long as you can talk to yourself, there is always something next to you!”

“You will always remain lonely till the day you meet a person who can understand your mind deeply!”

“Look at the universe! What do you see? An order? Tranquillity? A divine peace? You fool! You ignorant! Over there, galaxies are colliding, suns are exploding, black holes swallowing stars! Now look at the universe again! What do you see? A disorder? Chaos? Anything savage? You see a hell? Now, you see the truth!”

“Spend your time with the people who talk about the stars because to whichever place you put your mind in, you will move to that place! Stars pull you to the stars; mud pulls you to the mud!”