Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and courage. Perhaps everything that frightens us is, in its deepest essence, something helpless that wants our love.

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

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If you will stay close to nature, to its simplicity, to the small things hardly noticeable, those things can unexpectedly become great and immeasurable.

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There are moments in which a rose is more important than a piece of bread

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

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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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Have patience with everything that remains unsolved in your heart. Do not despair if the answers don't come immediately. Some answers are only revealed with the passage of time.

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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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And I circle ten thousand years long; And I still don't know if I'm a falcon, a storm, or an unfinished song

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