And do not change. Do not divert your love from visible things. But go on loving what is good, simple and ordinary; animals and things and flowers, and keep the balance true.
Life – a sexually transmitted terminal condition.
Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.
Where something becomes extremely difficult and unbearable, there we also stand already quite near its transformation.
Who speaks of conquering? To endure is everything.
This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love: the more they give, the more they possess.
What batters you becomes your strength.
Beauty is only the start of bearable terror.
We are not allowed to linger, even with what is most intimate.
It is clear that we must embrace struggle. Every living thing conforms to it. Everything in nature grows and struggles in its own way, establishing its own identity, insisting on it at all cost, against all resistance.
Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and courage. Perhaps everything that frightens us is, in its deepest essence, something helpless that wants our love.
Perhaps creating something is nothing but an act of profound remembrance.
Ah, how good it is to be among people who are reading!
The work of the eyes is done. Go now and do the heart-work on the images imprisoned within you.
But your solitude will be a support and a home for you, even in the midst of very unfamiliar circumstances, and from it you will find all your paths.
Make your ego porous. Will is of little importance, complaining is nothing, fame is nothing. Openness, patience, receptivity, solitude is everything.
Right in the difficult we must have our joys, our happiness, our dreams: there against the depth of this background, they stand out, there for the first time we see how beautiful they are.
The only journey is the one within.
I want to unfold. Let no place in me hold itself closed, for where I am closed, I am false...
Fame – the aggregate of all the misunderstandings that collect around a new name.