“The thinker only responded to what addressed itself to him.”

Our thinking today is charged with the task to think what the Greeks have thought in an even more Greek manner.

Nature has no history.

As long as it is, Dasein always has understood itself and always will understand itself in terms of possibilities.

The song still remains which names the land over which it sings.

The great collapses, the small remains forever.

We never come to thoughts. They come to us.

Longing is the agony of the nearness of the distant.

The essence of technology is by no means anything technological.

But what is great can only begin great.

Only within metaphysics does logic exist.

Because it is more essential, and older, the destiny of Being is less familiar than the lack of God.

Nothing religious is ever destroyed by logic; it is destroyed only by the god’s withdrawal.

A resounding of the authentic word can arise only from silence.

The most thought-provoking thing in our thought-provoking time is that we are still not thinking.

Why is love beyond all measure of other human possibilities so rich and such a sweet burden for the one who has been struck by it? Because we change ourselves into that which we love, and yet remain ourselves.

The poets are in the vanguard of a changed conception of Being.

Americans are so spoiled. They think you always have to have a car, whereas I got away on my own two feet.

It is far more comforting to think God listened and said no, than to think that nobody’s out there.

I did not believe political directives could be successfully applied to creative writing . . . not to poetry or fiction, which to be valid had to express as truthfully as possible the individual emotions and reactions of the writer.

The first word Jesus used in His earthly ministry was repent. Repent means to change the way you’ve been conditioned to think, and I believe that is the only way we are going to see the impact of the original concepts and idea of God.

Foul jealousy! that turnest love divine to joyless dread, and makest the loving heart with hateful thoughts to languish and to pine.

Don’t let people’s compliments go to your head, and don’t let their criticisms go to your heart. The degree to which you do either of these things is the degree to which you’ll be ruled by what other people think of you.

Positive thinking is how you think about a problem. Enthusiasm is how you feel about a problem. The two together determine what you do about a problem.

Each person’s life is like a mandala – a vast, limitless circle. We stand in the center of our own circle, and everything we see, hear and think forms the mandala of our life … everything that shows up in your mandala is a vehicle for your awakening.