That Which Does Not Suffer

“We live in a nightmare of falsehoods, and our first duty is to clear away illusions and recover a sense of reality.”

The main point to grasp is that you have projected onto yourself a world of your own imagination, based on memories, on desires and fears, and that you have imprisoned yourself in it. Break the spell and be free.

“I am a free man ― and I need my freedom. I need to be alone. I need to ponder my shame and my despair in seclusion; I need the sunshine and the paving stones of the streets without companions, without conversation, face to face with myself, with only the music of my heart for company. What do you want of me? When I have something to say, I put it in print. When I have something to give, I give it.”

“Workers need poetry more than bread. They need that their life should be a poem. They need some light from eternity. […] Deprivation of this poetry explains all forms of demoralization.”

“I keep turning you over in my mind. I keep turning you over in my heart.”

As we shed the trappings of an insecure life, as we venture more fully into the realm of tender acceptance, there are lighted moments that reveal an authority of being that has been there all along.

“Don’t be ashamed to need help. Like a soldier storming a wall, you have a mission to accomplish. And if you’ve been wounded and you need a comrade to pull you up? So what?”

By plucking her petals you do not gather the beauty of the flower.

“Go then if you must, but remember, no matter how foolish your deeds, those who love you will love you still.”

“I want to be with you, it is as simple, and as complicated as that.”