There came a time when the risk to remain tight in the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
Sometimes we reveal ourselves when we are least like ourselves.
although I love a rich life, I hate an overcrowded life. I believe in rumination and lose half the beauty of all things when I am deprived of the time to ruminate.
There are very few human beings who receive the truth, complete and staggering, by instant illumination. Most of them acquire it fragment by fragment, on a small scale, by successive developments, cellularly, like a laborious mosaic.