Love and death are the great gifts that are given to us; mostly they are passed on unopened.

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.

Maybe not today, Maybe not tomorrow. But somewhere down the line, there has to be a light.

Only passions, great passions, can elevate the soul to great things.

It is us who change. We grow stronger, and the problems appear less imposing.

Just because you’re grown up and then some doesn’t mean settling into the doldrums of predictability. Surprise people. Surprise yourself. (281)

The high-definition picture is still a perspective picture. That's the real problem, the perspective picture.

All he said was that we're all free if we pursue spirit. That's all he said. He didn't say let's set up a Vatican Concil. He didn't say, Martin Luther, you need to put our demands on the door.

Success is rarely the result of one swell swoop, but more often the culmination of many, many small victories.

Always say less than necessary.

You can't satisfy everybody; especially if there are those who will be dissatisfied unless not everybody is satisfied.