Certainties are arrived at only on foot. |
Everything is like the rivers: the work of the slopes. |
Flowers are without hope. Because hope is tomorrow and flowers have no tomorrow. |
For as long as and insofar as it cannot be, it is almost always a reproach to everything that can. |
God has given a great deal to man, but man would like something from man. |
He who does not fill his world with phantoms remains alone. |
He who does not know how to create should not know. |
He who does not know how to create should not know. |
He who goes step by step always finds himself level with a step. |
He who has seen everything empty itself is close to knowing what everything is filled with. |
I have been my own disciple and my own master. And I have been a good disciple but a bad master. |
I keep my hands empty for the sake of what I have had in them. |
I know what I have given you. I do not know what you have received |
I stop wanting what I am looking for, looking for it. |
I will help you to approach if you approach, and to keep away if you keep away. |