I could give you no advice but this: to go into yourself and to explore the depths where your life wells forth.

The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things.

and I circle ten thousand years long; And I still don't know if I'm a falcon, a storm, or an unfinished song

I implore those who love me to love my solitude.

Perhaps all the dragons of our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us once beautiful and brave.

Perhaps then, some day far in the future, you will gradually, without even noticing it, live your way into the answer.

We have no reason to mistrust our world, for it is not against us. Has it terrors, they are our terrors; has it abysses, those abysses belong to us; are dangers at hand, we must try to love them.... Perhaps all the dragons of our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us once beautiful and brave. Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something helpless that wants help from us.