That’s love: Two lonely persons keep each other safe and touch each other and talk to 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.

Faith is a strong fortress.

There can be no disparity in marriage like unsuitability of mind and purpose.

Laughter is like crying.

I do not ask, O Lord, that life may be a pleasant road.

You rarely hear anyone use the word pancreas in a not-horrible context.

Knowing cats, a lifetime of cats, what is left is a sediment of sorrow quite different from that due to humans: compounded of pain for their helplessness, of guilt on behalf of us all.

Faith is to believe what you do not yet see: the reward for this faith is to see what you believe. Thus all below is strength, and all above is grace.

Act without striving. Work without interfering. Find the flavour in what is flavourless.

Revelation is the marriage of knowing and feeling.

Jimmy: When you die, I die Sora: Wow, that's some serious relationship!