Perhaps a great love is never returned.

Here man is no longer the center of the world, only a witness, but a witness who is also a partner in the silent life of Nature, bound by secret affinities of the trees.

Forgiveness is the answer to the child's dream of a miracle by which what is broken is made whole again, what is soiled is made clean again.

Isn't the fulfillment of our duty towards our neighbor an expression of deepest desire?

Never, for the sake of peace and quiet, deny your own experience or convictions.

Your body must become familiar with its death - in all its possible forms and degrees - as a self-evident, imminent, and emotionally neutral step on the way towards the goal you have found worthy of your life.

Maturity - among other things, the unclouded happiness of the child at play, who takes it for granted that he is at one with his play-mates.