"To forgive oneself"—? No, that doesn't work: we have to be forgiven. But we can only believe this is possible if we ourselves can forgive. - Dag Hammarskjöld

If even dying is to be made a social function, then, grant me the favor of sneaking out on tiptoe without disturbing the party.

The 'mystical experience'. Always here and now - in that freedom which is one with distance in that stillness which is born of silence. But - this is a freedom in the midst of action, a stillness in the midst of other human beings. The mystery is a constant reality to him who, in this world, is free from self-concern, a reality that grows peaceful and mature before the receptive attention of assent.

He is one of those who has had the wilderness for a pillow, and called a star his brother. Alone. But loneliness can be a communion.