If only we arrange our life according to that principle which counsels us that we must hold to the difficult, then that which now still seems to us the most alien will become what we most trust and find most faithful.

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

Across the moment, aeons speak with aeons. More than we experienced has gone by.

If the Angel deigns to appear, it will be because you have convinced him, not by tears but by your humble resolve to be always beginning — to be a Beginner!

It’s possible, I’m moving through the hard veins of heavy mountains, like an arc, alone; I’m so deep inside, I see no end in sight, and no distance: everything is getting near and everything near is turning to stone.

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

Wishes are recollections coming from the future.