You must think that something is happening upon you, that life has not forgotten you, that it holds you in its hand; it will not let you fall.

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.

For some, excavating the past isn’t an adventure, it’s more akin to tearing a Band-Aid off an open wound.

I was drowning, but all I needed to do was breathe.

Martin Luther King was not a Marxist or a communist, but his radical love leads him to put poor and working people at the center.

The office of the prince and that of the writer are defined and assigned as follows: the nobleman gives rank to the written work,the writer provides food for the prince.

The best way to accomplish something is to just do it, and then find the courage afterward.

Be an earnest student of yourself. Study your leading desires and tendencies.

Other people can think ahead all they want. I just focus on the task at hand and try to move on.

I reserve the right to evolve. What I think and feel today is subject to revision tomorrow.

We need to find three Saudi Arabias just to offset [the] decline.

If the father is not straight naider will be the son.