This is the road we all must travel—over the Bridge of Sighs into eternity.

The most agreeable, the most refreshing conversation is still that which is carried on by the trees . . .

Father in Heaven! When the thought of you awakens in our soul, let it not awaken like a startled bird which then flutters about in confusion, but like the child from sleep with its heavenly smile.

The immediate person believes and fancies that the main thing when he prays,
what he is particularly occupied with, is that God hears what it is he is praying for.
And yet in the truly eternal sense it is just the opposite:
it is not when God hears what is being prayed for that the true prayer relationship occurs
but when it is the one who prays who continues to pray until
it is he who is the one hearing, who hears what God wills.

Above all, do not lose your desire to walk: every day I walk myself into a state of well-being and walk away from every illness; I have walked myself into my best thoughts, and I know of no thought so burdensome that one cannot walk away from it.