Do not be bewildered by the surfaces: in the depths all becomes law..

Who has not sat before his own heart's curtain? It lifts: and the scenery is falling apart..

Love consists of this: two solitudes that meet, protect and great each other..

One of the most difficult tests for the creator: he must always remain unconscious, unaware of his best virtues, if he doesn't want to rob them of th….

It is part of the nature of every definitive love that sooner or later it can reach the beloved only in infinity..

And now let us believe in a long year that is given to us, new, untouched, full of things that have never been, full of work that has never been done….

You must think that something is happening upon you, that life has not forgotten you, that it holds you in its hand; it will not let you fall..

You see, I want a lot. Perhaps I want everything the darkness that comes with every infinite fall and the shivering blaze of every step up. So many l….

Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something helpless that wants help from us..

You must change your life..

God... sat down for a moment when the dog was finished in order to watch it... and to know that it was good, that nothing was lacking, that it could ….

It is possible I am pushing through solid rock, like the vein of ore encased, alone. I am such a long way in I can see no way through and no space. E….

Most people have turned their solutions toward what is easy and toward the easiest side of the easy; but it is clear that we must trust in what is di….

Somewhere there is an ancient enmity between our daily life and the great work. Help me in saying it, to understand it..

There exists a creature which is perfectly harmless; when it passes before your eyes you scarcely notice it and forget it again immediately. But as s….

He who understands one thing understands everything, for the same laws are in all..

[A]t bottom, and just in the deepest and most important things, we are unutterably alone, and for one person to be able to advise or even help anothe….

O how all things are far removed and long have passed away. I do believe the star, whose light my face reflects, is dead and has been so for many tho….

The leaves are falling, falling as if from far up,as if orchards were dying high in space.Each leaf falls as if it were motioning "no."And tonight th….

The sky puts on the darkening blue coat held for it by a row of ancient trees; you watch: and the lands grow distant in your sight, one journeying to….

Understand, I'll slip quietly away from the noisy crowd when I see the pale stars rising, blooming, over the oaks. I'll pursue solitary pathways thro….