“The fear of death comes from identifying yourself as the body. The earthly component, rather than the pure soul within.”

“As the separation of the soul from the body is the death of the body, so the separation of God from the soul is the death of the soul. And this death of the soul is the true death.”

“Choose rather to be strong in soul than in body.”

“Your earthly body is after all nothing more than a dress and inside it is a finer dress, and you yourself are in this finer dress.”

“Awakening is realizing that you are the citizen of the universe, rather than identifying yourself as the citizen of your own country or that of the world.”

“Attack the evil that is within yourself, rather than attacking the evil that is in others.”

“Love is as strong as death, as hard as Hell. Death separates the soul from the body, but love separates all things from the soul.”

“But does not happiness come from the soul within?”

“Come out from within yourself, speak out.”

“Homophobia entails not only the fear of those who are abjectly identified (and depended on) but also the fear of being abjectly identifiable onself: the fear, as the word most literally means, of being 'the same as'. This latter fear is arguably a much stronger component of homophobia than of, say, sexism or racism (despite the mechanisms of projection and abjection doubtless at work in those forms of hatred), because the sexist male or the racist white is in much less 'danger' of being 'mistaken' for a woman or a nonwhite than the straight is of being 'mistaken' for a queer.”