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.
There are no classes in life for beginners; right away you are always asked to deal with what is most difficult.
We need, in love, to practice only this: letting each other go. For holding on comes easily; we do not need to learn it.
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.
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.
You darkness, that I come from, I love you more than all the fires that fence in the world.
Don't take my devils away, because my angels may flee too.
I think of you often, dear, and with such concentrated wishes that it really must help you in some way.
This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love: the more they give, the more they possess.
The future enters into us, in order to transform itself in us, long before it happens.
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.
There is only one journey. Going inside yourself.
Just keep going - no feeling is final.
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.
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.
Understand, I'll slip quietly away from the noisy crowd when I see the pale stars rising, blooming, over the oaks. I'll pursue solitary pathways through the pale twilit meadows with only this one dream: You come too.
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.
Think... of the world you carry within you.
Is not impermanence the very fragrance of our days?
Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant day into your answers.
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.
What is necessary, after all, is only this: solitude, vast inner solitude. To walk inside yourself and meet no one for hours-that is what you must be able to attain. To be solitary as you were when you were a child.
Our task is to take this earth so deeply and wholly into ourselves that it will resurrect within our being.
I am touched by your beautiful anxiety about life.
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.
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