Be ahead of all parting, as though it already were behind you.

The point is to live everything.

Earth, my dearest, oh believe me, you no longer need your springtimes to win me over...Unspeakably, I have belonged to you, from the flush.

We must assume our existence as broadly as we in any way can; everything, even the unheard - of, must be possible in it. This is at bottom the only courage that is demanded of us: to have courage for the most strange, the most inexplicable.

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

If only we arrange our life according to that principle which counsels us that we must hold to the difficult, then that which now still seems to us the most alien will become what we most trust and find most faithful.

Our task is to take this earth so deeply and wholly into ourselves that it will resurrect within our being.