I want to love the things as no one has thought to love them.

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.

A soul that knows it is loved but does not itself love betrays its sediment: what is at bottom comes up."―Epigrams and Interludes, Section 79

until the end of the world, all whys will be answered, but now, you can only ask!

The dead shouldn’t cry, not even the lesser dead.

Horrible date all through high school and college. Here's an impression of me on a date in high school. Come on, chug it!

Dogmatists have one advantage: they are poor listeners.

Poetry evokes out of words the resonance of the primordial world.

There's wisdom in wine.

I have 12 paintings of Kaufman art. He is an amazing artist.

I was more of a dancing kid than a singing kid. I mean, I sang in school choirs and I sang in school musicals, but I was much more interested in dancing than singing.

Let the Beloved be a hat pulled down firmly on my head.