I change too quickly: my today refutes my yesterday. When I ascend I often jump over steps, and no step forgives me that.

The 'kingdom of Heaven' is a condition of the heart - not something that comes 'upon the earth' or 'after death.'

Underneath the reality in which we live and have our being, another altogether different reality lies concealed.

I have been casting shadows all my life without caring about how deeply they stain my soul.

The discipline of suffering, of great suffering- do you not know that only this discipline has created all enhancements of man so far? That tension of the soul in unhappiness which cultivates its strength, its shudders face to face with great ruin, its inventiveness and courage in enduring, preserving, interpreting, and exploiting suffering, and whatever has been granted to it of profundity, secret, mask, spirit, cunning, greatness- was it not granted to it through suffering, through the discipline of great suffering?

Become who you are. Make what only you can make.

The greatest cure for love is still that time honoured medicine - love returned.