The best way to know the Truth or Beauty is to try to express it.

it is when you are really living in the present-working, thinking, lost, absorbed in something you care about very much, that you are living spiritually.

To have the external pressure of a job removed is very astonishing. Your own will is now your only motor and it has no horse-power. Sometimes I think that perhaps the most competent business men, and lawyers and doctors, who must be at the office at nine o'clock every morning, do not realize this and take more credit for initiative and industry than they deserve. And it is why all the bright women of the world, who if more were expected of them, might do important work, but who instead have a chronic feeling of ineffectiveness and sloth.

Write a true, careless, slovenly impulsive, honest diary every day of your life.

we like fixed rules because that ends thinking and we can rest. But there is no resting place down here.

Since you are like no other being ever created since the beginning of time, you are incomparable.

I want to write about the great and powerful thing that listening is. And how we forget it. And how we don't listen to our children, or those we love. And least of all - which is so important, too - to those we do not love. But we should. Because listening is a magnetic and strange thing, a creative force...When we are listened to, it creates us, makes us unfold and expand. Ideas actually begin to grow within us and come to life.