Perhaps everything terrifying is deep down a helpless thing that needs our help.

The flower bends when the wind wants it to, and you must become like that-that is, filled with deep #‎ trust .

A birdsong can even, for a moment, make the whole world into a sky within us, because we feel that the bird does not distinguish between its heart and the world's.

Fame — the aggregate of all the misunderstandings that collect around a new name.

Go into yourself and test the deeps in which your life takes rise; at its source you will find the answer to the question whether you must create. Accept it, just as it sounds, without inquiring into it. Perhaps it will turn out that you are called to be an artist. Then take that destiny upon yourself and bear it, its burden and its greatness, without ever asking what reward might come from outside

Where something becomes extremely difficult and unbearable, there we also stand always already quite near its transformation.

If there is anything unhealthy in your reactions, just bear in mind that sickness is the means by which an organism frees itself from what is alien; so one must simply help it to be sick, to have its whole sickness and to break out with it, since that is the way it gets better.