Those tasks that have been entrusted to us are difficult; almost everything serious is difficult; and everything is serious.

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.

Life is a sorrow, without a song.

There are certain truths that occurs to us, which we cannot convey in words, but requires a personal experience to grasp more vividly.

When you love someone, you're willing to give up damn near anything for them to be happy.

Once you get into the world of dystopia, it's hard to avoid plagiarism, because other people have had such powerful visions.

I presume that it is the better part of wisdom that we bow to our fate with as good grace as possible.

A pittifull looke askes enough.

Have the strength to be an honest person.

That's how children deal with terror, they fall asleep.

There's no hierarchy in suffering. I think songs that are transcendent are the ones where everyone can feel something from it, you know?

But you make me sing like a guitar humming . . .