It’s an emotional need for a mother to have the maternal desire. Either it emerges from the accidental loss of a child or the incapacity to have their own child.

“Meaning emerges from engagement with the world, not from abstract contemplation of it.”

What paralyzes life is lack of faith and lack of courage. The difficulty lies not in solving problems but in expressing them correctly; and we can now see that it is biologically undeniable that unless we harness passion to the service of spirit there can be no progress. Sooner or later, then, and in spite of all our incredulity, the world will take this step – because the greater truth always prevails and the greater good emerges in the end.

Only through art can we emerge from ourselves and know what another person sees.

Man is equally incapable of seeing the nothingness from which he emerges and the infinity in which he is engulfed.