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If my devils are to leave me, I'm afraid my angels will take flight as well.


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



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



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



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



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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.



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



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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.



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If the path you walk is the right one, then the big question comes: How many people have you directed to that path?



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