Keep your heart in wonder at the daily miracles of your life.

When you are sorrowful, look again.

If we were to all sit in a circle and confess our sins, we would laugh at each other for lack of originality.

Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself. They came through you but not from you and though they are with you yet they belong not to you.

Like the seeds dreaming beneath the snow your heart dreams of spring.

Saying this, he turned his head toward the window as if he were trying to solve the problems of human existence by concentrating on the beauty of the universe.

Yet you shall not deplore having known blindness, nor regret having been deaf. For in that day you shall know the hidden purposes in all things. And you shall bless darkness as you would bless light.