In the room...they are inside the books. They move sometimes within the pages, like sleepers turning over between two dreams.

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.

The more often he feels without acting, the less he will be able ever to act, and, in the long run, the less he will be able to feel.

When I first submerged my feet into frigid water, they hurt so badly I yanked them out again. I persisted, dunking them for longer and longer periods, until the cold finally blistered.

Because we can't communicate, there's a lot of misunderstanding.

Fleetwood Mac is just one of my all-time favorite bands.

Every life, even the best ones, ends in sadness. Books hold out hope that things may end otherwise.

The more careless, the more modish.

To me, giving back is so important. It makes others feel good which then in return makes me feel good.

Who has excess and supplies the world? Only the one who follows the Way.

Have patience to walk with short steps until you have wings to fly.

If it be a sin to covet honor, I am the most offending soul.