Take your well-disciplined strengths, stretch them between the two great opposing poles, because inside human beings is where God learns.

A work of art is good if it has arisen out of necessity. That is the only way one can judge it.

Whoever now makes himself bigger, freer and more human in his own existence, is doing his part toward peace, — as yet it must be worked at in an inward direction, not until a few have it all big and ready within them can it let itself be brought into the world.

The future enters into us, in order to transform itself in us, long before it happens.

If we surrendered to earth’s intelligence we could rise up rooted, like trees. Instead we entangle ourselves in knots of our own making and struggle, lonely and confused. So like children, we begin again... to fall, patiently to trust our heaviness. Even a bird has to do that before he can fly. (from the poem "How Sure Gravity's Law")

Nothing strange should befall us, but only that which has long belonged to us. We will gradually learn to realize that that which we call destiny goes forth from within people, not from without into them.

All emotions are pure which gather you and lift you up; that emotion is impure which seizes only one side of your being and so distorts you.