Deeply I go down into myself. My god is Dark and like a webbing made of a hundred roots that drink in silence.

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.

And once you've been to this Center, this Truth, you'll know your way everywhere. You are never lost again.

Leadership needs continuous learning from experience. Every time you learn something new, you re-wire your brain.

An abstract style is always bad. Your sentences should be full of stones, metals, chairs, tables, animals, men, and women.

Follow your dreams wherever they lead you and pay for those dreams with good jobs in software programming and computer design!

When we pray for the Spirit, we are not praying for an answer; we are praying for God to enter us, to fill us with his presence, his thoughts, and his words.

Acting is my true love. I would like to have been a serious actor, and I plan to in the next life. I'm gonna be Meryl Streep Rivers.

The most radical, audacious thing to think is that there might be some point to working hard and thinking hard and reading hard and writing hard and trying to be of service

To me the most important thing in a piece of art is the thought. Technique is totally secondary.

The fourth major league game I ever saw in person, I was in uniform

You don't create your mission in life - you detect it.