"In a world that hates inferiority...the various things that weaken us and bring along with them feelings of inferiority can be very fruitful to the soul."

"I hope there is a spiritual renaissance taking place in our time, I hope that it's not just spiritual, I hope its also a soul renaissance…a real renaissance of life itself. We can think about a renaissance in our own personal lives too… and enter that spirit of rebirth. It's a wonderful image, very creative, and it's also iconoclastic in a sense. I mean that if we're really going to have a rebirth, that means that some things have to die off. And that can be painful, and we hang on to them. So there is that side of it too. "