I think of you often, dear, and with such concentrated wishes that it really must help you in some way.

But there is much beauty here, because there is much beauty everywhere.

Joy is a marvelous increasing of what exists, a pure addition out of nothingness.

If the Angel deigns to appear, it will be because you have convinced him, not by tears but by your humble resolve to be always beginning — to be a Beginner!

Perhaps then, some day far in the future, you will gradually, without even noticing it, live your way into the answer.

Everything is gestation and bringing forth. To let each impression and each germ of feeling come to completion wholly in itself, in the dark, in the inexpressible, the unconscious, beyond the reach of one's own intelligence, and await with deep humility and patience the birth-hour of a new clarity: that alone is living the artist's life.

More belongs to marriage than four legs in a bed.