Go into yourself and test the deeps in which your life takes rise; at its source you will find the answer to the question whether you must create. Ac….

a kind of memory that tells us that what we're now striving for was once nearer and truer and attached to us with infinite tenderness. Here all is di….

Just keep going - no feeling is final..

What we call fate does not come into us from the outside, but emerges from us..

I am the rest between two notes which are somehow always in discord..

Art too is just a way of living, and however one lives, one can, without knowing, prepare for it; in everything real one is closer to it, more its ne….

Who, if I cried out, would hear me among the angels'hierarchies? and even if one of thempressed me against his heart: I would be consumedin that over….

We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen..

That is the principal thing-not to remain with the dream, with the intention, with the being-in-the-mood, but always forcibly to convert it all into ….

All feelings that concentrate you and lift you up are pure; only that feeling is impure which grasps just one side of your being and thus distorts yo….

Have patience with everything that remains unsolved in your heart. Do not despair if the answers don't come immediately. Some answers are only reveal….

Only the individual who is solitary is like a thing placed under profound laws, and when he goes out into the morning that is just beginning, or look….

Believe in a love that is being stored up for you like an inheritance, and have faith that in this love there is a strength and a blessing so large t….

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

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

Describe your sorrows and desires, passing thoughts and the belief in some sort of beauty-describe all these with loving, quiet, humble sincerity, an….

The work of the eyes is done. Go now and do the heart-work on the images imprisoned within you..

For bel.i.eve me, the more one is, the richer is all one experiences. And whoever wants to have deep love in his life must collect and save for it an….

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

Just as the creative artist is not allowed to choose, neither is he permitted to turn his back on anything: a single refusal, and he is cast out of t….

This is what the things can teach us: to fall, patiently to trust our heaviness. Even a bird has to do that before he can fly..