Humility is just as much the opposite of self-abasement as it is of self-exaltation.

We all have within us a center of stillness surrounded by silence.

Is life so wretched? Isn't it rather your hands which are too small, your vision which is muddled? You are the one who must grow up.

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.

The 'great' commitment is so much easier than the ordinary everyday one.

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

Perhaps a great love is never returned. Had it been given warmth and shelter by its counterpart in the Other, perhaps it would have been hindered from ever growing to maturity. It "gives" us nothing. But in its world of loneliness it leads us up to the summits with wide vistas - of great insights.