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.
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.
Think... of the world you carry within you.
Is not impermanence the very fragrance of our days?
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.
I am touched by your beautiful anxiety about life.
A birdsong can even, for a moment, make the whole world into a sky within us, because we feel that the bird does not distinguish between its heart and the world's.
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.
Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue, a wonderful living side by side can grow, if they succeed in loving the distance between them which makes it possible for each to see the other whole against the sky.
Life is heavier than the weight of all things.
Love and death are the great gifts that are given to us; mostly they are passed on unopened.
Perhaps creating something is nothing but an act of profound remembrance.
Do not allow yourself to be misled by the surfaces of things
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.
If, when you wake up in the morning, you can think of nothing but writing . . . then you are a writer.
The future must enter you long before it happens.
He who understands one thing understands everything, for the same laws are in all.
Look, we don't love like flowers with only one season behind us; when we love, a sap older than memory rises in our arms.
I believe in all that has never yet been spoken.
Nearly everything that matters is a challenge, and everything matters.
God speaks to each of us as he makes us, then walks with us silently out of the night.
Somewhere there is an ancient enmity between our daily life and the great work. Help me in saying it, to understand it.
May you find in yourself enough patience to endure and enough simplicity to have faith.
The point is to live everything.
As people used to be wrong about the motion of the sun, so they are still wrong about the motion of the future. The future stands still, it is we who move in infinite space.
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