“See with your mind, Speak with your heart,Touch with your eyes, Love with your entire being.”

“Fantasies... who needs fantasies? I have memories.”

“Sex mirrored our drinking; both defined our relationship: selfish, detached, indulgent and satisfying.”

“Where does one run to escape from feelings?”

“Memories are reality's ghosts”

“You might as well laugh at yourself,everyone else is.”

“I finally know the difference between pleasing and loving, obeying and respecting. It has taken me so many years to be okay with being different, and with being this alive, this intense. (xxvi)”

“Spring passes and one remembers one's innocence.Summer passes and one remembers one's exuberance.Autumn passes and one remembers one's reverence.Winter passes and one remembers one's perseverance.”

“Birthdays could be such a bummer when you were older than the country you lived in.”

“See with your mind, Speak with your heart,Touch with your eyes, Love with your entire being.”

“Where does one run to escape from feelings?”

“Memories are reality's ghosts”

“Those [things] that we encounter for the first time immediately have a spiritual effect upon us. A child, for whom every object is new, experiences the world in this way: it sees light, is attracte...”

“Because your character is always full of ambition, the news of my being locked up must have been much harder on you than it was on me. When I was arrested, it was almost a relief to know that I cou...”

“Spiritual learning is easy when we realize and experience that everything that everyone said about spirituality is already in action within us!!! Seek within rather than outside.”