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How should we be able to forget those ancient myths that are at the beginning of all peoples, the myths about dragons that at the last moment turn int...more

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That is fundamentally the only courage which is demanded of us: to be brave in the face of the strangest, most singular and most inexplicable things t...more

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Bodily delight is a sensory experience, not any different from pure looking or the pure feeling with which a beautiful fruit fills the tongue; it is a...more

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In one creative thought a thousand forgotten nights of love come to life again and fill it with majesty and exaltation. And those who come together in...more

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Think... of the world which you carry within yourself... and set it above everything that you notice about you. Your inmost happening is worth your wh...more

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No, my life is not this precipitous hourthrough which you see me passing at a run.

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I live my life in growing orbits which move out over this wondrous world, I am circling around God, around ancient towers and i have been circling for...more

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And isn't the whole world yours? For how often you set it on fire with your love and saw it blaze and burn up and secretly replaced it with another wo...more

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Who is there today who still cares about a well-finished death? No one. Even the rich, who could after all afford this luxury, are beginning to grow l...more

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But now that so much is changing, isn't it time for us to change? Couldn't we try to gradually develop and slowly take upon ourselves, little by littl...more

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If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its riches; for the Creator, there is no pov...more

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Don't take my devils away, because my angels may flee too.

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Long you must suffer, knowing not what,until suddenly out of spitefully chewed fruit your suffering's taste comes forth in you.Then you will love almo...more

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She who reconciles the ill-matched threadsOf her life, and weaves them gratefullyInto a single cloth – It’s she who drives the loudmouths from the hal...more

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Take your well-disciplined strengths, stretch them between the two great opposing poles, because inside human beings is where God learns.