And you suddenly know: It was here! You pull yourself together, and there stands an irrevocable year of anguish and vision and prayer.

The highest form of love is to be the protector of another person’s solitude.

Go into yourself and see how deep the place is from which your life flows.

Let everything happen to you Beauty and terror Just keep going No feeling is final

Perhaps somewhere, someplace deep inside your being, you have undergone important changes while you were sad.

Make your ego porous. Will is of little importance, complaining is nothing, fame is nothing. Openness, patience, receptivity, solitude is everything.

Where something becomes extremely difficult and unbearable, there we also stand always already quite near its transformation.

This is what the things can teach us: to fall, patiently to trust our heaviness. Even a bird has to do that before he can fly.

And now we welcome the new year, full of things that have never been

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.

If we surrendered to earth's intelligence we could rise up rooted, like trees.

You must intercept the passing time well, hence it will fly away into vanity.

Travel is wishing for one more bite of whatever that just was.

That has always been my biggest ambition. To bring people together. To achieve a family spirit. Because then, you can actually do anything, because people are open to what they feel is real.

No man was ever more than about nine meals away from crime or suicide.

Divine souls suffer violent opposition from mediocre minds.

By dancing in a socially approved way with their peers, individiuals proclaim their allegiance to society as a whole.

If you try to look But you don't touch Then you won't touch But you'll never feel And if you don't feel You'll never cry And if you don't cry Then you'll never heal.

Freedom lies beyond the field of consciousness.

Women have had the power of naming stolen from us. We have not been free to use our own power to name ourselves, the world, or God.

Oh seize the instant time; you never will With water once passed by impel the mill.