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.
Wishes are recollections coming from the future.
You must give birth to your images. They are the future waiting to be born. Fear not the strangeness you feel. The future must enter you long before it happens. Just wait for the birth, for the the hour of the new clarity.
Spring has returned. The Earth is like a child that knows poems.
Think... of the world you carry within you, and call this thinking whatever you want to: a remembering of your own childhood or a yearning toward a future of your own - only be attentive to what is arising within you, and place that above everything you perceive around you. What is happening in your innermost self is worthy of your entire love; somehow you must find a way to work at it.
Embrace your solitude and love it. Endure the pain it causes, and try to sing out with it. For those near to you are distant.
Do not assume that he who seeks to comfort you now, lives untroubled among the simple and quiet words that sometimes do you good. His life may also have much sadness and difficulty, that remains far beyond yours. Were it otherwise, he would never have been able to find these words.
I would like to beg of you, dear friend, as well as I can, to have patience with everything that remains unsolved in your heart. Try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books written in a foreign language. Do not now look for the answers. They cannot now be given to you because you could not live them. It is a question of experiencing everything.
He does not always remain bent over the pages; he often leans back and closes his eyes over a line he has been reading again, and its meaning spreads through his blood.
There are no classes in life for beginners; right away you are always asked to deal with what is most difficult.
You darkness, that I come from, I love you more than all the fires that fence in the world.
Again and again in history some people wake up. They have no ground in the crowd and move to broader deeper laws. They carry strange customs with them and demand room for bold and audacious action. The future speaks ruthlessly through them. They change the world.
As bees gather honey, so we collect what is sweetest out of all things and build.
I think of you often, dear, and with such concentrated wishes that it really must help you in some way.
Think... of the world you carry within you.
Where I create, there I am true.
I am touched by your beautiful anxiety about life.
Religion is something infinitely simple, ingenuous. It is not knowledge, not content of feeling... it is not duty and not renunciation, it is not restriction: but in the infinite extent of the universe it is a direction of the heart.
Do not allow yourself to be misled by the surfaces of things
God... sat down for a moment when the dog was finished in order to watch it... and to know that it was good, that nothing was lacking, that it could not have been made better.
It is clear that we must embrace struggle. Every living thing conforms to it. Everything in nature grows and struggles in its own way, establishing its own identity, insisting on it at all cost, against all resistance.
The moments when something new has entered us, something unknown; our feelings grow mute in shy embarrassment, everything in us withdraws, a silence arises, and the new experience, which no one knows, stands in the midst of it all and says nothing.
The point is to live everything.
I believe in all that has never yet been spoken.
Love and death are the great gifts that are given to us; mostly they are passed on unopened.
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