When true self-remembering comes, one does not want to alter oneself;
one somehow rises above their weaknesses and one's own.
There can be no blame anywhere.
One swallows what is, and becomes free.
A journal of awakened thought ... beautiful gems of wisdom that continue to light my way ...
... I would like to beg you dear Sir, as well as I can, to have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and to try to love the questions themselves as if they were locked rooms or books written in a very foreign language. Don't search for the answers, which could not be given to you now, because you would not be able to live them. And the point is to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps then, someday far in the future, you will gradually, without even noticing it, live your way into the answer. --from Letters to a Young Poet (1903) |
"Fill life with yourself, do not let boredom smash it on the rocks of oblivion. ...