When anxious, uneasy and bad thoughts come, I go to the sea, and the sea drowns them out with its great wide sounds, cleanses me with its noise, and imposes a rhythm upon everthing in me that is bewildered and confused.

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Go into yourself and see how deep the place is from which your life flows.

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And now we welcome the new year, full of things that have never been

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I am so glad you are here. It helps me realize how beautiful my world is.

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I want to unfold. Let no place in me hold itself closed, for where I am closed, I am false.

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The highest form of love is to be the protector of another person’s solitude.

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I want to be with those who know secret things or else alone.

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Your solitude will expand and become a place where you can live in the twilight, where the noise of other people passes, far in the distance.

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Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books that are now written in a very foreign tongue. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer.

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And your doubt can become a good quality if you train it. It must become knowing, it must become criticism. Ask it, whenever it wants to spoil something for you, why something is ugly, demand proofs from it, test it, and you will find it perhaps bewildered and embarrassed, perhaps also protesting. But don't give in, insist on arguments, and act in this way, attentive and persistent, every single time, and the day will come when, instead of being a destroyer, it will become one of your best workers-perhaps the most intelligent of all the ones that are building your life.

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