“We possess nothing certainly except the past.”

“There is nothing you can do about the past except keep it there.”

“Whatever we had missed, we possessed together the precious, the incommunicable past.”

“There is poetry as soon as we realize that we possess nothing.”

“Eternal tourists of ourselves, there is no landscape but what we are. We possess nothing, for we don’t even possess ourselves. We have nothing because we are nothing. What hand will I reach out, and to what universe? The universe isn’t mine: it’s me.”

“… memory can restore to life everything except smells, although nothing revives the past so completely as a smell that was once associated with it.”

“There is nothing beyond the world except what we see, no background to it except its particular history.”

“All, without any exception, will certainly know their real Self.”

“Nothing binds you except your thoughts; nothing limits you except your fear; and nothing controls you except your beliefs.”

“Those who are possessed by nothing possess everything.”