The action of a thing is the same as the naming of it - is, in fact, the real name. The trees creak and they are saying, 'trees creak through the long night.' The long night - what is it? Trees creaking. There wasn't anything that tied life's moments...
…There are times when something is asked of us, and we find we must do it. There is no calculation involved, no measure of the necessity of the thing itself, the action that must be performed. There is simply an acknowledgment that we will do the t...
If he acts, if he doesn't, it's meaningless. The whole thing goes forward. No one is important. No one at all.
I'm an elephant today. I will need to have lots of room and also a bowl of water on the floor.
Not that believing such things has anything to do with whether they are true. You see that, don't you?
That would be the death of anyone - to recognize false hopes with a certainty. One mustn't know that. If it is offered, refuse!
…In this way that he sought to control the very passage of his life, deftly and without forethought, yet precisely and with enormous care. Part of it was to allow what was enormous, what was profound, without limiting it.
