Right in the difficult we must have our joys, our happiness, our dreams: there against the depth of this background, they stand out, there for the first time we see how beautiful they are.

People have (with the help of conventions) oriented all their solutions toward the easy and toward the easiest side of the easy; but it is clear that we must hold to what is difficult; everything alive holds to it, everything in Nature grows and defends itself in its own way and is characteristically and spontaneously itself, seeks at all costs to be so and against all opposition.

The flower bends when the wind wants it to, and you must become like that-that is, filled with deep #‎ trust .

Everything is blooming most recklessly; if it were voices instead of colors, there would be an unbelievable shrieking into the heart of the night.

Deeply I go down into myself. My god is Dark and like a webbing made of a hundred roots that drink in silence.

Winning does not tempt that man. This is how he grows: by being defeated, decisively, by constantly greater beings.

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