Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and courage. Perhaps everything that frightens us is, in its deepest essence, something helpless that wants our love.
A billion stars go spinning through the night, / glittering above your head, / But in you is the presence that will be / when all the stars are dead.
Our heart always transcends us.
Joy is a marvelous increasing of what exists, a pure addition out of nothingness.
We make our way through Everything like thread passing through fabric, giving shape to images that we ourselves do not know.
Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books that are now written in a very foreign tongue. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer.
Your solitude will expand and become a place where you can live in the twilight, where the noise of other people passes, far in the distance.
Go into yourself and see how deep the place is from which your life flows.
I am so glad you are here. It helps me realize how beautiful my world is.
I am circling around God, around the ancient tower, and I have been circling for a thousand years, and I still don't know if I am a falcon, or a storm, or a great song.
I believe that nothing that is real can pass away.
The highest form of love is to be the protector of another person’s solitude.
Perhaps somewhere, someplace deep inside your being, you have undergone important changes while you were sad.
Our task is to take this earth so deeply and wholly into ourselves that it will resurrect within our being.
When anxious, uneasy and bad thoughts come, I go to the sea, and the sea drowns them out with its great wide sounds, cleanses me with its noise, and imposes a rhythm upon everthing in me that is bewildered and confused.
If you will stay close to nature, to its simplicity, to the small things hardly noticeable, those things can unexpectedly become great and immeasurable.
Believe in a love that is being stored up for you like an inheritance, and have faith that in this love there is a strength and a blessing so large that you can travel as far as you wish without having to step outside it.
God speaks to each of us as he makes us, then walks with us silently out of the night. These are the words we dimly hear: You, sent out beyond your recall, go to the limits of your longing. Embody me. Flare up like a flame and make big shadows I can move in. Let everything happen to you: beauty and terror. Just keep going. No feeling is final. Don't let yourself lose me. Nearby is the country they call life. You will know it by its seriousness. Give me your hand.
There are moments in which a rose is more important than a piece of bread
And your doubt can become a good quality if you train it. It must become knowing, it must become criticism. Ask it, whenever it wants to spoil something for you, why something is ugly, demand proofs from it, test it, and you will find it perhaps bewildered and embarrassed, perhaps also protesting. But don't give in, insist on arguments, and act in this way, attentive and persistent, every single time, and the day will come when, instead of being a destroyer, it will become one of your best workers-perhaps the most intelligent of all the ones that are building your life.
I want to be with those who know secret things or else alone.
Have patience with everything that remains unsolved in your heart. Do not despair if the answers don't come immediately. Some answers are only revealed with the passage of time.
And now we welcome the new year, full of things that have never been
and I circle ten thousand years long; And I still don't know if I'm a falcon, a storm, or an unfinished song
I want to unfold. Let no place in me hold itself closed, for where I am closed, I am false.
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