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.

you are not too old and it is not too late to dive into your increasing depths where life calmly gives out it's own secret

There are no classes in life for beginners; right away you are always asked to deal with what is most difficult.

I know of no other advice than this: Go within and scale the depths of your being from which your very life springs forth.

Why don't you think of [God] as the one who is coming, who has been approaching from all eternity... the ultimate fruit of a tree whose leaves we are.

If we only arrange our life in accordance with the principle which tells us that we must always trust in the difficult, then what now appears to us as the most alien will become our most intimate and trusted experience. How could we forget those ancient myths that stand at the beginning of all races, the myths about dragons that at the last moment are transformed into princesses? Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and courage.

Everything terrible is something that needs our love.