31 quotes found
“Doffing the ego'ssafe glory, he findshis naked reality.”
“Trees quiver in the wind,sailing on a sea of mistout of earshot.”
“My home drove meinto the wilderness.Few look for me. Few hear me.”
“His moral lectureblazed with hate.What could have driven a child that far?”
“Apes. The moon woke them--round the world's navel revolvedprayer wheels of steps.”
“Friendship needs no words - it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.”
“Do not seek death. Death will find you. But seek the road which makes death a fulfillment.”
“The light died in the low clouds. Falling snow drank in the dusk. Shrouded in silence, the branches wrapped me in their peace. When the boundaries were erased, once again the wonder: that *I* exist.”
“He is one of those who has had the wilderness for a pillow, and called a star his brother. Alone. But loneliness can be a communion.”
“When the sense of the earth unites with the sense of one's body, one becomes earth of the earth, a plant among plants, an animal born from the soil and fertilizing it. In this union, the body is co...”
“A heart pulsating in harmony with the circulation of sap and the flow of rivers? A body with the rhythms of the earth in its movements? No. Instead: a mind, shut off from the oxygen of alert senses...”
“When you have reached the point where you no longer expect a response, you will at last be able to give in such a way that the other is able to receive, and be grateful. When Love has matured and, ...”
“Like the bee, we distill poison from honey for our self-defense--what happens to the bee if it uses its sting is well known.”
“Acts of violence-- Whether on a large or a small scale, the bitter paradox: the meaningfulness of death--and the meaninglessness of killing.”
“To preserve the silence within--amid all the noise. To remain open and quiet, a moist humus in the fertile darkness where the rain falls and the grain ripens--no matter how many tramp across the pa...”
“Your cravings as a human animal do not become a prayer just because it is God whom you ask to attend to them.”
“The dizziness in the face of les espaces infinis--only overcome if we dare to gaze into them without any protection. And accept them as the reality before which we must justify our existence. For t...”
“You are not the oil, you are not the airmerely the point of combustion, the flash-point where the light is born. You are merely the lens in the beam. You can only receive, give, and possess the lig...”
“Forgiveness breaks the chain of causality because he who 'forgives' you--out of love--takes upon himself the consequences of what you have done. Forgiveness, therefore, always entails a sacrifice.T...”
“Forgiveness is the answer to the childs dream of a miracle by which what is broken is made whole again, what is soiled is made clean again.”
“What makes loneliness an anguish is not that I have no one to share my burden, but this: I have only my own burden to bear.”
“To have humility is to experience reality, not in relation to ourselves, but in its sacred independence. It is to see, judge, and act from the point of rest in ourselves. Then, how much disappears,...”
“This accidentalmeeting of possibilitiescalls itself I.I ask: what am I doing here?And, at once, this Ibecomes unreal.”
