I am ashamed of my emptiness," said the Word to the Work. "I know how poor I am when I see you," said the Work to the Word.

The cure for all the illness of life is stored in the inner depth of life itself, the access to which becomes possible when we are alone. This solitude is a world in itself, full of wonders and resources unthought of. It is absurdly near; yet so unapproachably distant.

A thorn can only be extracted if you know where it is.

I have spent many days stringing and unstringing my instrument while the song I came to sing remains unsung.

The child learns so easily because he has a natural gift, but adults, because they are tyrants, ignore natural gifts and say that children must learn through the same process that they learned by. We insist upon forced mental feeding and our lessons

when you came you cried and everybody smiled with joy; when you go smile and let the world cry for you.

If you allow your mind to carp at all and sundry, it will turn against itself: the majority of our sorrows are self-inflicted.