Love consists of this: two solitudes that meet, protect and great each other.

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.

Unless it is you, finding out who your lover’s dream lover is is a nightmare.

I would never slay the dragon, because the dragon was also me.

Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) said: By his good character a believer will attain the degree of one who prays during the night and fasts during the day.

To live in the past is to die in the present.

Self-harm - the world will come at you with knives anyway. You do not need to beat them to it.

I just want to make music that matters, that people will remember for a long time.

Dilettantism is the sort of thing one must avoid.

When a maniac is at the door, feuding brothers reconcile.

My father was a poor man, very poor in a British colonial possession where class and race were very important.

Leaders spend 5% of their time on the problem & 95% of their time on the solution. Get over it & crush it!