“In chaos, there is fertility.”

The real wonders of life lie in the depths. Exploring the depths for truths is the real wonder which the child and the artist know: magic and power lie in truth.

Anxiety is love’s greatest killer. It makes others feel as you might when a drowning man holds on to you. You want to save him, but you know he will strangle you with his panic.

Shame is the lie someone told you about yourself.

People living deeply have no fear of death.

Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don’t know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.

Don’t let one cloud obliterate the whole sky.

Create a world, your world. Alone. Stand alone. And then love will come to you, then it comes to you.

Write. Write until it stops hurting.

No one should be forced to carry the unfulfilled self of another.

It is in the movements of emotional crisis that human beings reveal themselves most accurately.

The secret of life was Breath. That was what I always wanted my words to do, to Breathe.

Whenever you do something that is not aligned with the yearning or your soul – you create suffering.

We are never trapped unless we choose to be.

When you possess light within, you see it externally.

The dream was always running ahead of me. To catch up, to live for a moment in unison with it, that was the miracle.

Anything I can not transform into something marvelous, I let go.

Productive stress is a modern mask for addiction to chaos.

The creation of a single world comes from a huge number of fragments and chaos.

Everything is more beautiful because we’re doomed. You will never be lovelier than you are now. We will never be here again.

The erotic is a measure between the beginnings of our sense of self and the chaos of our strongest feelings.

One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star.

In the middle of chaos lies opportunity.

Out of chaos, find simplicity, From discord, find harmony.

Government “planning” is not an alternative to chaos. It is a pre-emption of other people’s plans.