Your doubt can become a good quality if you train it. It must become knowing, it must become criticism.

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.

It was a trap. It was so obviously a trap.Darquesse smiled.

Water returns to the ocean. Light returns to the sun. Life returns to God.

As the excellence of steel is strength, and the excellence of art is beauty, so the excellence of mankind is moral character.

Nobel prize-calibre geniuses often have certain core autistic features at their heart.

Audiences tend to dig the earlier stuff by any given musician, and the artists themselves always tend to prefer the thing that they're doing now.

Zen professes itself to be the spirit of Buddhism, but in fact it is the spirit of all religions and philosophies.

Mass movements do not usually rise until the prevailing order has been discredited.

My father had declared a predilection for heirs general, that is, males and females indiscriminately.... I, on the other hand, had a zealous partiality for heirs male, however remote.

All my fears and cares are of this world; if there is another, an honest man has nothing to fear from it.

... of the two kinds of order, the conscious and the unconscious order, only one is real. It's the order in the deep hidden places.