Oh longing for places that were not Cherished enough in that fleeting hour How I long to make good from afar The forgotten gesture the additional act.

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.

We can all rise to a higher divine-self with encouragement.

Science is the one human activity that is truly progressive. The body of positive knowledge is transmitted from generation to generation.

Certain barriers do require a critical mass of action at the right time to overcome the inertia that is greater than incremental change.

Be grateful for whatever it is that opens you up.

I was a child, and in 1942, I was evacuated to the Cotswolds with my mother, who was a teacher - she went with her school. I lived in one house in the village, and my mother was in the vicarage.

Growth has failed on its own terms. You can't have infinite growth in a world of finite resources.

There is no shortage of good days. It is good lives that are hard to come by.

Averages ... seduce us away from minute observation.

Those who teach by their doctrine must teach by their life, or else they pull down with one hand what they build up with the other.

I like ... what I characterize as more built-to-last ideas rather than built-to-flip ideas.