« ... Master Eckhart: "If you love yourself, you love each other as yourself. As long as you love someone less than yourself, you will not really succeed in loving yourself, but if your love extends to all equally, including yourself, you will love all beings as one person, and that person is both God and man. So he is great and just the one who, loving himself, loves all others equally." »

« According to Freud, man is only a mechanism set in motion by libido with as a regulatory principle the maintenance of libido at the minimum of arousal. He saw man as a fundamentally selfish being, bound to his fellow human beings by the shared need to satisfy instinctive desires. For Freud, pleasure was the relaxation of tension and not the experience of joy. He was not the total man, but the self-intellect of the Enlightenment philosophers. Fraternal love was an unreasonable demand, contrary to reality, mystical experience, a regression towards infantile narcissism. The purpose of Zen is enlightenment: the immediate, instantaneous (unthinking) apprehension of reality, apprehension without emotional contamination, without intellectualization and the realization of the relationship between me and the universe. This new experience is only a repetition of the apprehension of the world, pre-eclectic and immediate, of the child but at a higher level: that of the full development of reason, objectivity, the individuality of man. »

« The first step is to realize that love is an art, just as living is an art. »