Never believe fate is more than the condensation of childhood.

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.

Freedom is obedience to self-formulated rules.

Busy with the ugliness of the expensive success We forget the easiness of free beautyLying sad right around the corner, Only an instant removed, Unnoticed and squandered.

When you are fully conscious, drama does not come into your life anymore.

I used to tell young preachers, in order to preach you've got to have the power of God on your life. Now I tell them, in order to tie your shoes you've got to have the power of God on your life.

There's a lot of music that sounds like it's literally computer-generated, totally divorced from a guy sitting down at an instrument.

The concept that you are not ingesting rotting flesh sort of sums it up for me.

Disobedience to conscience is voluntary; bad poetry, on the other hand, is usually not made on purpose.

The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways: the point, however, is to change it.

All great power has to do to destroy itself is persist in trying to do the impossible.

Awards don't really mean much.