we want it visible to showwhen even the most visible joy will reveal itselfonly when we have transformed it within.there’s nowhere, my love, the world can existexpect within.

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 really isn't where you live as much as who you live with that makes a place feel like home.

The study of man is the study of his extensions.

In a neurotic society, insane ideas can become 'normal', the current triumph of tribalism is the result of rabid global anti-intellectualism.

Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of knowing you did your best to become the best that you are capable of becoming.

Your influence is determined by how abundantly you place other people's interests first.

The science has changed from ambiguous to near-unanimous... Based on the data I'm now switching sides regarding global warming, from skeptic to convert.

Everyone in his place and a place for everyone.

Myth is the secret opening through which the inexhaustible energies of the cosmos pour into human manifestation.

I think getting stoned has made me buy a lot of bad albums, because when I'm stoned I think everything is amazing.

You cannot build performance on weaknesses. You can build only on strengths.