Wanting to change, to improve, a person's situation means offering him, for difficulties in which he is practiced and experienced, other difficulties that will find him perhaps even more bewildered.

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

Think... of the world you carry within you, and call this thinking whatever you want to: a remembering of your own childhood or a yearning toward a future of your own - only be attentive to what is arising within you, and place that above everything you perceive around you. What is happening in your innermost self is worthy of your entire love; somehow you must find a way to work at it.

What is necessary, after all, is only this: solitude, vast inner solitude. To walk inside yourself and meet no one for hours-that is what you must be able to attain. To be solitary as you were when you were a child.

I am too alone in the world and not alone enough to make every moment holy.

May what I do flow from me like a river, no forcing and no holding back, the way it is with children.

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.