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

The deepest experience of the creator is feminine, for it is experience of receiving and bearing.

Extinguish my eyes, I'll go on seeing you. Seal my ears, I'll go on hearing you. And without feet I can make my way to you, without a mouth I can swear your name. Break off my arms, I'll take hold of you with my heart as with a hand. Stop my heart, and my brain will start to beat. And if you consume my brain with fire, I'll feel you burn in every drop of my blood.

Avoid providing material for the drama that is always stretched tight between parents and children; it uses up much of the children’s strength and wastes the love of the elders, which acts and warms even if it doesn’t comprehend. Don’t ask for advice from them and don’t expect any understanding; but believe in a love that is being stored up for you like an inheritance, and have faith that in this love there is strength and blessing so large that you can travel as far as you wish without having to step outside it.

What we call fate does not come into us from the outside, but emerges from us.

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

a good marriage is that in which each appoints the other guardian of his solitude