Any lifetime that is spent without seeing the master is either death in disguise or a deep sleep. The water that pollutes you is poison; the poison that purifies you is water.
Having spent the better part of my life trying either to relive the past or experience the future before it arrives, I have come to believe that in between these two extremes is peace.
I have found by experience that they who have spent all their lives in cities, improve their talents but impair their virtues; and strengthen their minds but weaken their morals.
I think the years I have spent in prison have been the most formative and important in my life because of the discipline, the sensations, but chiefly the opportunity to think clearly, to try to understand things.
The greater part of our lives is spent in dreaming over the morrow, and when it comes, it, too, is consumed in the anticipation of a brighter morrow, and so the cheat is prolonged, even to the grave.
We faced a number of trials during the journey, we spent months trying to find a way into europe ... We succeeded in finally making our way to belgium. We were then able to obtain weapons and set up a safe house while we planned to carry out operations against the crusaders.
