The deepest experience of the creator is feminine, for it is experience of receiving and bearing.

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 ultimate purpose of a teacher is to teach students to think in a better way.

As a writer, you don't just write for the ears, you also write for the eyes.

As for future life every man must judge for himself between conflicting vague probabilities.

In Paris, I really do like to try and do nothing... but that's impossible.

The worst thing you can do as an artist is to repeat yourself.

No one can be wrong with man and right with God.

I am the space between my thighs, daylight shining through.

Why is life so difficult for some people and not for others? Why do some people have to struggle so much?

For this is the tragedy of man circumstances change, but he does not.

You don't get what you don't ask for