There is a creative spirit in you desiring to be free, and you may as well get out of its way for it will give you no peace until you do.

Who are enemies? Those who oppose each others will.

To have character is to be big enough to take life on.

Am I willing to give up what I have in order to be what I am not yet? Am I willing to let my ideas of myself, of man be changed? Am I able to follow the spirit of love into the desert? To empty myself even of my concept of emptiness?

Inhabit ourselves that we may indeed do what we want to do.

And with listening, too, it seems to me, it is not the ear that hears, it is not the physical organ that performs the act of inner receptivity. It is the total person who hears. Sometimes the skin seems to be the best listener, as it prickles and thrills, say to a sound or a silence; or the fantasy, the imagination: how it bursts into inner pictures as it listens and then responds by pressing its language, its forms, into the listening clay. To be open to what we hear, to be open in what we say. .

Love is not a doctrine, Peace is not an international agreement. Love and peace are beings who live as possibilities in us.