My blood is alive with many voices telling me I am made of longing.

Embrace your solitude and love it. Endure the pain it causes, and try to sing out with it. For those near to you are distant.

There exists a creature which is perfectly harmless; when it passes before your eyes you scarcely notice it and forget it again immediately. But as soon as it invisibly gets somehow into your ears, it develops there, it hatches, as it were, and cases have been known where it was penetrated even into the brain and has thriven devastatingly in that organ, like those pneumococci in dogs that gain entrance through the nose.This creature is one's neighbor.

Resolve to be always beginning-to be a beginner!

Everything in the world of things and animals is still filled with happening, which you can take part in.

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")

In the depths all becomes law.