No one can advise and help you, no one. There is only one way: go within.

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

Do you remember how life yearned out of childhood toward the "great thing?" I see that it is now yearning forth beyond the great thing toward the greater one.

It is clear that we must embrace struggle. Every living thing conforms to it. Everything in nature grows and struggles in its own way, establishing its own identity, insisting on it at all cost, against all resistance.

As the arrow endures the string, and in the gathering momentum becomes more than itself. Because to stay is to be nowhere.

Who, if I cried out, would hear me among the angels'hierarchies? and even if one of thempressed me against his heart: I would be consumedin that overwhelming existence. For beauty is nothingbut the beginning of terror, which we still are just able to endure,and we are so awed because it serenely disdainsto annihilate us. Every angel is terrifying.

Our task is to listen to the news that is always arriving out of silence.