( Mutlu olmadığınızdan, mutluluğu hazda ararsınız; haz acı getirir, bunun için de ona dünyevi dersiniz; o zaman başka türlü bir hazzı, acısız bir hazzı özlersiniz, ona da ilâhi/tanrısal dersiniz. )
( As long as we believe that we need things to make us happy, we shall also believe that in their absence we must be miserable. The right state and use of the body and the mind are intensely pleasant. It is the search for pleasure that is wrong. Because you are not happy you seek happiness in pleasure; pleasure brings in pain and therefore you call it worldly; you then long for some other pleasure, without pain, which you call divine. Happiness is both worldly and unworldly, within and beyond all that happens. To know that you need nothing to be happy, except self-knowledge, is wisdom. Pleasure is but a respite from pain. )