I hold this to be the highest task for a bond between two people: that each protects the solitude of the other.

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.

Give thanks for what you are today and go on fighting for what you gone be tomorrow

I felt like a still live fish on ice in a butcher’s counter on Friday morning.- On Cats

I thought of myself as a global citizen.

Good men make good rhinoceroses, unfortunately.

We can't hear the balance yet because the soloist is still on the airplane.

You see, we are all dying. It's only a matter of time. Some of us just die sooner than others.

I simply taught, preached, wrote God's Word: otherwise I did nothing. The Word of God did it all.

Everybody likes to have a place to think, to meditate, to eat a burrito.

Man is spirit. But what is spirit? Spirit is the self. But what is the self? The self is a relation which relates itself to itself.

I've kind of fashioned my life after a Slinky. Bend me in a million shapes, and eventually I'll spring back to what I originally was.