Be ahead of all parting, as though it already were behind you.

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.

When you get ill do not get nervous about it and try as much as possible to be hopeful.

Concerning culture as a process, one would say that it means learning a great many things and then forgetting them; and the forgetting is as necessary as the learning.

I love depressing movies and depressing books.

In the absence of observers, our universe is dead

I believe that we will move forward a little tomorrow but I have my doubts that we will achieve a result.

The great thing about reading is that it broadens your life

It is time for pastors, priests and all true believers to come out of the closet and stand for truth against the flood of evil.

Words! Mere words! How terrible they were! How clear, and vivid, and cruel! One could not escape from them. And yet what a subtle magic there was in them!

The fact is that you are not the body. The Self does not move but the world moves in it. You are only what you are.

Every day is a good day.