A billion stars go spinning through the night, / glittering above your head, / But in you is the presence that will be / when all the stars are dead.

Perhaps all the dragons of our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us once beautiful and brave.

Don't be too quick to draw conclusions from what happens to you; simply let it happen. Otherwise it will be too easy for you to look with blame... at your past, which naturally has a share with everything that now meets you.

Draw near to Nature. Then try like some first human being to say what you see and experience and love and lose.

And you suddenly know: It was here! You pull yourself together, and there stands an irrevocable year of anguish and vision and prayer.

Resolve to be always beginning-to be a beginner!

Since I've learned to be silent, everything has come so much closer to me.