When I look, I see clear as a sunflower. I’m always walking the roads Looking right and left, And sometimes looking behind … And what I see every second Is something I’ve never seen before, And I know how to do this very well … I know how to have the essential astonishment That a child would have if it could really see It was being born when it was being born … I feel myself being born in each moment, In the eternal newness of the world … I believe in the world like I believe in a marigold, Because I see it. But I don’t think about it Because to think is to not understand … The world wasn’t made for us to think about (To think is to be sick in the eyes) But for us to see and agree with … I don’t have a philosophy: I have senses … If I talk about Nature, it’s not because I know what it is, But because I love it, and that’s why I love it, Because when you love you never know what you love, Or why you love, or what love is … Loving is eternal innocence, And the only innocence is not thinking …

Knowing how to be solitary is central to the art of loving. When we can be alone, we can be with others without using them as a means of escape.

I should like this sky, this quiet water, to think themselves within me, that it might be I whom they express in flesh and bone, and I remain at a distance. But it is also by this distance that the sky and the water exist before me.

Be still, absolutely, completely still. Receive yourself. Drink yourself. Be nourished by yourself. You are Stillness. Be who you are.

“Develop an interest in life as you see it; the people, things, literature, music - the world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself.”

I overcame myself, the sufferer; I carried my own ashes to the mountains; I invented a brighter flame for myself.

Go deeper … Past thoughts into silence. Past silence into stillness. Past stillness into the heart. Let Love consume all that is left of you.