“I, without grasping will pass beyond sorrow,
And I will attain nirvāṇa, one says.
Whoever grasps like this
Has great grasping.”

“All right, I also have a condition:that you should not write down anything without grasping the full significance of what I say.”

“So we are grasped by what we cannot grasp.”

“Both the abodes (this world and the Hereafter) are grasped by the intellect, and whoever is deprived of the intellect is deprived of them both.”

“When the mind has grasped the matter, words come like flowers at the call of spring.”

“Try to grasp the essence of what the great artists, the serious masters, say in their masterpieces, and you will again find God in them. One man has written or said it in a book, another in a painting.”

“There can be no whole without a thought which grasps it as a whole; and this grasping of what is before the mind as a whole can be effected only by a sort of voluntary halt in a kind of progressive movement of thought.”

“Failure to grasp centrifugal meaning is incomplete reading; failure to grasp centripetal meaning is incompetent reading.”

“But you don't let true happiness slip out of your grasp without one helluva fight.”

“Meet this transient world with neither grasping nor fear, trust the unfolding of life, and you will attain true serenity.”