Have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves as if they were locked rooms or books written in a very foreign language. Don't search for the answers, which could not be given to you now, because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now.
Let everything happen to you: beauty and terror. Just keep going. No feeling is final.
If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its riches.
Kahlil Gibran·1923But let there be spaces in your togetherness, and let the winds of the heavens dance between you. Love one another but make not a bond of love.
Thomas Merton·1953It is in deep solitude that I find the gentleness with which I can truly love my brothers. The more solitary I am, the more affection I have for them.
Eleanor Roosevelt·1960Friendship with oneself is all-important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.
