To be a poet in a destitute time means: to attend, singing, to the trace of the fugitive gods. This is why the poet in the time of the world's night utters the holy.

If I take death into my life, acknowledge it, and face it squarely, I will free myself from the anxiety of death and the pettiness of life - and only then will I be free to become myself.

We should never allow our fears or the expectations of others to set the frontiers of our destiny.

The most thought-provoking thing in our thought-provoking time is that we are still not thinking.

A boundary is not that at which something stops, but that from which something begins.

A person is neither a thing nor a process but an opening through which the Absolute can manifest.

Dwelling is not primarily inhabiting but taking care of and creating that space within which something comes into its own and flourishes.

Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one.

Nothing is everything that doesn't happen at this very moment.

Everyone is the other and no one is himself.

Questioning is the piety of thought.

How can I be substantial if I do not cast a shadow? I must have a dark side also If I am to be whole

Dreams Are Where It All Begins

P46- As long as the oppressed remain unaware of the causes of their condition, they fatalistically "accept" their exploitation.

It's so much easier to like people, and to let people in, to trust them until they prove that you should do otherwise. The alternative is being an iceberg.

Silence is the garment of light.

Even in your darkest moments, you'll think of something that'll crack you up.

That the sun will not rise tomorrow is no less intelligible a proposition, and implies no more contradiction, than the affirmation, that it will rise.

I am not failing - I am growing! Do you have the ability to reframe failure as growth in order to achieve your goals?

It's incredible to see the creativity, beauty and hardships people capture when filmmaking is opened up and shared with the world.

The duty of helping one's self in the highest sense involves the helping of one's neighbors.