The sole way to save oneself is to save others. Or to struggle to save others -even that is sufficient.

Ah, if you could dance all that you've just said, then I'd understand.

Reach what you cannot

Beauty always had a purpose: to be of service to life.

Within this arena, which grows more stable night after day, generations work and love and hope and vanish. New generations tread on the corpses of their fathers, continue the work above the abyss and struggle to tame the dread mystery. How? By cultivating a single field, by kissing a woman, by studying a stone, an animal, an idea.

As I watched the seagulls, I thought, That's the road to take; find the absolute rhythm and follow it with absolute trust.

You will, Judas, my brother. God will give you the strength, as much as you lack, because it is necessary—it is necessary for me to be killed and for you to betray me. We two must save the world. Help me." Judas bowed his head. After a moment he asked, "If you had to betray your master, would you do it?" Jesus reflected for a long time. Finally he said, "No, I'm afraid I wouldn't be able to. That is why God pitied me and gave me the easier task: to be crucified.