I learned through my body and soul that it was necessary for me to sin, that I needed lust, that I had to strive for property and experience nausea and the depths of despair in order to learn not to resist them, in order to learn to love the world.

You must find your dream...but no dream lasts forever, each dream is followed by another, and one should not cling to any particular dream.

That life is difficult, I have often bitterly realized.

At the first kiss I felt something melt inside me that hurt in an exquisite way. All my longings, all my dreams and sweet anguish, all the secrets that slept deep within me came awake, everything was transformed and enchanted, and everything made sense.

I sped through heaven and saw god at work. I suffered holy pains. I dropped all my defenses and was afraid of nothing in the world. I accepted all things and to all things I gave up my heart.

Whether you and I and a few others will renew the world some day remains to be seen. But within ourselves we must renew it each day.

. . . gentleness is stronger than severity, water is stronger than rock, love is stronger than force.