Your preparation for the real world is not in the answers you’ve learned, but in the questions you’ve learned how to ask yourself.

In the night, I wish to speak with the angel to find out if she recognizes my eyes, if she will ask me: do you see Eden? And I’ll reply: Eden burns.

Do you recall, from your childhood on, how very much this life of yours has longed for greatness? I see it now, how from the vantage point of greatness it longs for even greater greatness. That is why it does not let up being difficult, but that is also why it will not cease to grow.

We are not permitted to linger, even with what is most intimate.

Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant day into your answers.

Truly it is glorious, our being here.

Our being is continually undergoing and entering upon changes. ... We must, strictly speaking, at every moment give each other up and let each other go and not hold each other back.