Most people have turned their solutions toward what is easy and toward the easiest side of the easy; but it is clear that we must trust in what is difficult; everything alive trusts in it.

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.

I am the soul in limbo.

How can you know God if you don't seek out his voice, find it, and learn to follow the path he is leading you on

Wild inside; raging, writhing—yes, "writhing" was the word, writhing with desire. But outwardly he was hopelessly tame; outwardly—baa, baa, baa.

The balance in your life is more important than the balance in your checking account.

Truth is always the enemy of power. And power the enemy of truth.

I hate the rich snots here with a fervent passion I usually reserve only for dental work and my father.

I am insecure. Everyone's insecure.

Humility is a priceless virtue; however, it takes a lot of self-emptying to cultivate it.

I remind you that I belong with great ardor to everyone and for this reason I am suffering immensely for all.

All defense secretaries in wartime have, needless to say, made misjudgments.