Perhaps the same bird echoed through both of us yesterday, separate, in the evening.
Your solitude will expand and become a place where you can live in the twilight, where the noise of other people passes, far in the distance.
One moment your life is a stone in you, and the next moment a star!
Perhaps somewhere, someplace deep inside your being, you have undergone important changes while you were sad.
Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something helpless that wants help from us.
Love and death are the great gifts that are given to us; mostly they are passed on unopened.
If the angel deigns to come it will be because you have convinced her, not by tears but by your humble resolve to be always beginning; to be a beginner.
I hold this to be the highest task for a bond between two people: that each protects the solitude of the other.
Someday you will name me, then gently place those burning holy roses in my hair.
I want to be with those who know secret things or else alone.
Wishes are recollections coming from the future.
There are no classes in life for beginners; right away you are always asked to deal with what is most difficult.
As people used to be wrong about the motion of the sun, so they are still wrong about the motion of the future. The future stands still, it is we who move in infinite space.
More belongs to marriage than four legs in a bed.
May you gain more and more confidence in what is difficult and in your solitude among other people.
Wanting to change, to improve, a person’s situation means offering him, for difficulties in which he is practiced and experienced, other difficulties that will find him perhaps even more bewildered.
Somewhere there is an ancient enmity between our daily life and the great work. Help me in saying it, to understand it.
When we are only victorious over small things, it leaves us feeling small.
We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen.
I want to unfold. I don’t want to stay folded anywhere, because where I am folded, there I am a lie.