When the suffering becomes acute enough, one goes forward.
You can ride, you can travel with a friend of your own; The final step you must take alone. No wisdom is better than this when known: That every hard thing is done alone.
Loneliness is the way by which destiny endeavors to lead man to himself.
Happiness is love, nothing else. A man who is capable of love is happy.
Beauty does not bring happiness to the one who possesses it, but to the one who loves and admires it.
Faith and doubt go hand in hand, they are complementaries. One who never doubts will never truly believe.
Because the world is so full of death and horror, I try again and again to console my heart and pick the flowers that grow in the midst of hell.
madness, in a higher sense, is the beginning of all wisdom
Solitude is independence.
Theory is knowledge that doesn't work. Practice is when everything works and you don't know why.
We must become so alone, so utterly alone, that we withdraw into our innermost self. It is a way of bitter suffering. But then our solitude is overcome, we are no longer alone, for we find that our innermost self is the spirit, that it is God, the indivisible. And suddenly we find ourselves in the midst of the world, yet undisturbed by its multiplicity, for our innermost soul we know ourselves to be one with all being.
The best weapons against the infamies of life are courage, wilfulness and patience. Courage strenthens, wilfulness is fun and patience provides tranquility.
There is a miracle in every new beginning
You must find your dream, then the way becomes easy.
Most people...are like a falling leaf that drifts and turns in the air, flutters, and falls to the ground. But a few others are like stars which travel one defined path: no wind reaches them, they have within themselves their guide and path.
We kill at every step, not only in wars, riots and executions. We kill when we close our eyes to poverty, suffering and shame.In the same way all disrespect for life, all hard-heartedness,all indifference, all contempt is nothing else than killing.
A tree has something to say to us: Be still! Be still! Look at me!... Home is within you, or home is nowhere at all.
The truth has a million faces, but there is only one truth.
There is no reality except the one contained within us.
Everything becomes a little different as soon as it is spoken out loud.
All higher humor begins with ceasing to take oneself seriously.
What could I say to you that would be of value, except that perhaps you seek too much, that as a result of your seeking you cannot find.
As every flower fades and as all youth departs, so life at every stage, so every virtue, so our grasp of truth blooms in its day and may not last forever. Since life may summon us at every age, be ready, heart, for parting, new endeavour, be ready bravely and without remorse to find new light that old ties cannot give. In all beginnings dwells a magic force for guarding us and helping us to live.
Only within yourself exists that other reality for which you long.
No permanence is ours, we are a wave that flows to fit whatever form it finds.
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