Resolve to be always beginning-to be a beginner!

I live my life in widening circles that reach out across the world.

But learning-time is always a long, secluded time, and so loving, for a long while ahead and far on into life, is-solitude, intensified and deepened loneness for him who loves.

...a carefree letting go of oneself, not a caution, but a wise blindness.

Never has grief been possessed, never has love been learned, and what removes us in death is not revealed.

At no other time (than autumn) does the earth let itself be inhaled in one smell, the ripe earth; in a smell that is in no way inferior to the smell of the sea, bitter where it borders on taste, and more honeysweet where you feel it touching the first sounds. Containing depth within itself, darkness, something of the grave almost.

If we surrendered to earth's intelligence we could rise up rooted, like trees.