We should be willing to act as a balm for all wounds..

Suffering has always been with us; does it really matter in what form it comes? All that matters is how we bear it and how we fit it into our lives..

Sometimes the most important thing in a whole day is the rest we take between two deep breaths, or the turning inwards in prayer for five short minut….

We have to fight them daily, like fleas, those many small worries about the morrow, for they sap our energies. We make mental provisions for the days….

We human beings cause monstrous conditions, but precisely because we cause them we soon learn to adapt ourselves to them. Only if we become such that….

Ultimately, we have just one moral duty: to reclaim large areas of peace in ourselves, more and more peace, and to reflect it towards others. And the….

Despite everything, life is full of beauty and meaning..

Such words as 'God' and 'Death' and 'Suffering' and 'Eternity' are best forgotten. We have to become as simple and as wordless as the growing corn or….

All disasters stem from us. Why is there a war? Perhaps because now and then I might be inclined to snap at my neighbour. Because I and my neighbour ….

As life becomes harder and more threatening, it also becomes richer, because the fewer expectations we have, the more good things of life become unex….

How rash to assert that man shapes his own destiny. All he can do is determine his inner responses..

ought we not, from time to time, open ourselves up to cosmic sadness? ... Give your sorrow all the space and shelter in yourself that is its due, for….

I really see no other solution than to turn inwards and to root out all the rottenness there. I no longer believe that we can change anything in the ….

The externals are simply so many props; everything we need is within us..

Thinking gets you nowhere. It may be a fine and noble aid in academic studies, but you can't think your way out of emotional difficulties. That takes….

Sometimes I feel that every word spoken and every gesture made merely serve to exacerbate misunderstandings. Then what I would really like is to esca….

It is the only thing we can do. Each of us must turn inward and destroy in himself all that he thinks he ought to destroy in others. And remember tha….

By 'coming to terms with life' I mean: the reality of death has become a definite part of my life; my life has, so to speak, been extended by death, ….

A desire to kneel down sometimes pulses through my body, or rather it is as if my body has been meant and made for the act of kneeling. Sometimes, in….

Before, I always lived in anticipation . . . that it was all a preparation for something else, something "greater," more "genuine." But that feeling ….

Never give up, never escape, take everything in, and perhaps suffer, that's not too awful either, but never, never give up..