The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things.

You darkness, that I come from, I love you more than all the fires that fence in the world, for the fire makes a circle of light for everyone, and then no one outside learns of you. But the darkness pulls in everything: shapes and fires, animals and myself, how easily it gathers them! - powers and people - and it is possible a great energy is moving near me. I have faith in nights.

Our task is to listen to the news that is always arriving out of silence.

Everything that makes more of you than you have ever been, even in your best hours, is right. Every intensification is good.

Fame is the sum of the misunderstanding that gathers about a new name.

I beg you, to have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and to try to love the questions themselves as if they were locked rooms or books written in a very foreign language.

Be out of sync with your times for just one day, and you will see how much eternity you contain within you.