Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue, a wonderful living side by side can grow, if they succeed in loving the distance between them which makes it possible for each to see the other whole against the sky. |
One had to take some action against fear when once it laid hold of one. |
One must also have been beside the dying, must have sat beside the dead in the room with the open window and the fitful noises. |
Painting is something that takes place among the colors, and one has to leave them alone completely, so that they can settle the matter among themselves. Their intercourse: this is the whole of painting. Whoever meddles, arranges, injects his human deliberation, his wit, his advocacy, his intellectual agility in any way, is already disturbing and clouding their activity. |
Perhaps all the dragons of our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us once beautiful and brave. |
Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something helpless that wants help from us. |
Physical pleasure is a sensual experience no different from pure seeing or the pure sensation with which a fine fruit fills the tongue; it is a great unending experience, which is given us, a knowing of the world, the fullness and the glory of all knowing. And not our acceptance of it is bad; the bad thing is that most people misuse and squander this experience and apply it as a stimulant at the tired spots of their lives and as distraction instead of a rallying toward exalted moments. |
Sometimes when you're really lonely, you really feel alive and you feel like you know who you are. |
Spring has returned. The Earth is like a child that knows poems. |
Surely all art is the result of one's having been in danger, of having gone through an experience all the way to the end, where no one can go any further |
That is the principle thing - not to remain with the dream, with the intention, with the being-in-the-mood, but always forcibly to convert it into all things |
The deepest experience of the creator is feminine, for it is experience of receiving and bearing. |
The future enters into us, in order to transform itself in us, long before it happens. |
The great renewal of the world will perhaps consist in this, that man and maid, freed of all false feelings and reluctances, will seek each other not as opposites, but as brother and sister, as neighbors, and will come together as human beings. |
The only journey is the one within. |