The highest form of love is to be the protector of another person’s solitude.

The highest form of love is to be the protector of another person’s solitude.

Our task is to take this earth so deeply and wholly into ourselves that it will resurrect within our being.

And do not change. Do not divert your love from visible things. But go on loving what is good, simple and ordinary; animals and things and flowers, and keep the balance true.

Fame is finally only the sum total of all the misunderstanding that can gather around a new name.

I want to unfold. I don’t want to stay folded anywhere, because where I am folded, there I am a lie.

It is a tremendous act of violence to begin anything. I am not able to begin. I simply skip what should be the beginning.