Nothing strange should befall us, but only that which has long belonged to us. We will gradually learn to realize that that which we call destiny goes forth from within people, not from without into them.

Think... of the world you carry within you.

You must change your life.

and I circle ten thousand years long; And I still don't know if I'm a falcon, a storm, or an unfinished song

Your solitude will expand and become a place where you can live in the twilight, where the noise of other people passes, far in the distance.

Religion is something infinitely simple, ingenuous. It is not knowledge, not content of feeling... it is not duty and not renunciation, it is not restriction: but in the infinite extent of the universe it is a direction of the heart.

You are nearing the land that is life; you will recognize it by its seriousness.