« We can take refuge, too, in ruminations or daydreams or hopes, live in our fantasies and expectations, without ever going out to take the air in the light life; light because without expectation precisely, with no intention other than to feel and observe what it is to be alive and present. »

« We are looking for something and believe that we find it in what is put before our eyes: we buy a 4x4 to satisfy our need for freedom or recognition. A beautiful sofa because we want friendship and time to chat with our loved ones. Very expensive beauty products to feel good about our bodies. Unnecessary toys to show our children that we love them. But are we sure that these purchases will add to our happiness, allow it, facilitate it? What if it was the other way around? What if they were to weaken or prevent him? The materialistic way of life does just that: it gives us its junk, in the nest of our real needs. This system understands that humans need connections, so it tries to transform places of consumption into "places of conviviality". Supermarkets and department stores are sometimes referred to as "temples of consumption." In fact, they are not temples, but agoras, forums. It's worse. At least in the temples come to pray and commune only the faithful; but everyone will talk to the forum... »

« Our pseudo-materialistic freedom is that of enslaved beasts. We have become farm animals, or zoo animals. Fed, fed, cared for, but walking sadly in our cages, neurotic. And psychologically fragile. »