You have had many and great sadnesses, which passed. And you say that even this passing was hard for you and put you out of sorts. But, please, consider whether these great sadnesses have not rather gone right through the center of yourself? Whether much in you has not altered, whether you have not somewhere, at some point of your being, undergone a change when you were sad?

I want to unfold. Let no place in me hold itself closed, for where I am closed, I am false.

The most visible joy can only reveal itself to us when we've transformed it, within.

As the arrow endures the string, and in the gathering momentum becomes more than itself. Because to stay is to be nowhere.

I am much too alone in this world, yet not alone enough

Only the individual who is solitary is like a thing placed under profound laws, and when he goes out into the morning that is just beginning, or looks out into the evening that is full of happening, and if he feels what is going on there, then all status drops from him as from a dead man, though he stands in the midst of sheer life.

Love the questions themselves...Live the questions now and have confidence that someday far into the future, [I will live my] way into the answer.