“There is no need for you to leave the house. Stay at your table and listen. Don’t even listen, just wait. Don’t even wait, be completely quiet and alone. The world will offer itself to you to be unmasked; it has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet.”

–Kafka

“All men’s miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone.”

–Blaise Pascal

“The Absolute works with nothing. The workshop, the materials are what does not exist. Try and be a sheet of paper with nothing on it. Be a spot of ground where nothing is growing, where something might be planted, a seed, possibly, from the Absolute.”

–Rumi

“The body is a device to calculate the astronomy of the spirit. Look through that astrolabe and become oceanic.”

–Rumi