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.

We are the bees of the invisible. We madly gather the honey of the visible to store it in the great golden hive of the invisible.

Quiet friend who has come so far, feel how your breathing makes more space around you. Let this darkness be a bell tower and you the bell. As you ring, what batters you becomes your strength. Move back and forth into the change. What is it like, such intensity of pain? If the drink is bitter, turn yourself to wine. In this uncontainable night, be the mystery at the crossroads of your senses, the meaning discovered there. And if the world has ceased to hear you, say to the silent earth: I flow. To the rushing water, speak: I am.

Painting is something that takes place among the colors.

Never has grief been possessed, never has love been learned, and what removes us in death is not revealed.

Be ahead of all parting, as though it already were behind you.

Love the questions, themselves.