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What an unilateral life, when from the material of a renunciation, we must fashion something we love.

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Make your ego porous. Will is of little importance, complaining is nothing, fame is nothing. Openness, patience, receptivity, solitude is everything.

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I beg you, to have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and to try to love the questions themselves as if they were locked rooms or books...more

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Have patience with everything that remains unsolved in your heart. Try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books written in a...more

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so much is happening now; you must be patient like someone who is sick, and confident like someone who is recovering; for perhaps you are both. And mo...more

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And the point is to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps then, someday far into the future, you will gradually, without even noticing it, ...more

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Only he whose bright lyrehas sounded in shadowsmay, looking onward, restorehis infinite praise. Only he who has eatenpoppies with the deadwill not los...more