Perhaps somewhere, someplace deep inside your being, you have undergone important changes while you were sad.

Animals see the unobstructed world with their whole eyes. But our eyes, turned back upon themselves, encircle and seek to snare the world, setting traps for freedom.

I am too alone in the world and not alone enough to make every moment holy.

Go on loving what is good, simple, and ordinary.

You have had many and great sadnesses, which passed. And you say that even this passing was hard for you and put you out of sorts. But, please, consider whether these great sadnesses have not rather gone right through the center of yourself? Whether much in you has not altered, whether you have not somewhere, at some point of your being, undergone a change when you were sad?

But your solitude will be a support and a home for you, even in the midst of very unfamiliar circumstances, and from it you will find all your paths.

Our task is to take this earth so deeply and wholly into ourselves that it will resurrect within our being.