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Is life so wretched? Isn't it rather your hands which are too small your vision which is muddied? You are the one who must grow up.

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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...more

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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 wer...more

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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 o...more

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Like wind-- In it, with it, of it. Of it just like a sail, so light and strong that, even when it is bent flat, it gathers all the power of the wind w...more

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Humility is just as much the opposite of self-abasement as it is of self-exaltation. To be humble is not to make comparisons. Secure in its reality, t...more

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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 be...more

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This accidentalmeeting of possibilitiescalls itself I.I ask: what am I doing here?And, at once, this Ibecomes unreal.

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Humility before the flower at the timber line is the gate which gives access to the path up the open fell.