"I wanted only to advise you to progress quietly and seriously in your evolvement. You could greatly interfere with that process if you look outward and expect to obtain answers from the outside--answers which only your innermost feeling in your quietest hour can perhaps give you."
"If you will stay close to nature, to its simplicity, to the small things hardly noticeable, those things can unexpectedly become great and immeasureable. If you will love what seems to be insignificant and will in an unassuming manner, as a servant, seek to win the confidence of what seems poor, then everything will become easier, more harmonious, and somehow more conciliatory, not for your intellect--that will most likely remain behind, astonished--but for your innermost consciousness, your awakeness, and your inner knowing."
---from Letters to a Young Poet
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