“As I stumbled into confusion about what was real and what was not, the strangest thing happened: The world disintegrated. Reality collapsed, or my perception of it. It ripped apart like a dry skin ...”

“I seem to know a lot about myself, but cant tell who I am.”

“The universe is a gigantic amusement park in which we can have a ride or two.”

“Spirituality is the realization of the totality of our being.”

“Spirituality wants to know and experience higher states of mind and being. It wants to wrestle with angels and look the Creator in the eye.”

“The soul is imbued with a yearning that is carried, like a torch, from incarnation to incarnation. It burns with a curiosity about life and its true identity. Souls live, strive, and evolve, driven...”

“It has shown me that everything is illuminated in the light of the past. It is always along the side of us...on the inside, looking out.”

“Occasionally, in the stillness of a taxi or an airplane, she would catalog the pleasures she had lost. Cigarettes. Chewing gum. Strong mint toothpaste. Any food with hard edges or sharp corners tha...”

“Her memories splashed my nights with a magical illumination. Her thoughts were my intoxication!”

“I swear the earth shall surely be complete to him or her who shall be complete,The earth remains jagged and broken only to him or her who remains jagged and broken.”

“Deliverance is not for me in renunciation. I feel the embrace of freedom in a thousand bonds of delight.”

“The Shadow-maker shapes forever.”

“The War Has Been Declared.Your Ally Been Ensnared.It Is Now Or It Is Never.Break The Code Or Die Forever.Time Is Running OutRunning OutRunning OutTo the Warrior Give My BladeBy His Hand Your Fate I...”

“Think of how many religions attempt to validate themselves with prophecy. Think of how many people rely on these prophecies, however vague, however unfulfilled, to support or prop up their beliefs....”

“Why do you tell me this?" he asked. "How can you know who I'm speaking to?”