We must be willing to get rid of the life we've planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us. The old skin has to be shed before the new one can come. -

One great thing about growing old is that nothing is going to lead to anything. Everything is of the moment.

When you are on your path, and it is truly your path, doors will open for you where there were no doors for someone else.

What I think is that a good life is one hero journey after another. Over and over again, you are called to the realm of adventure, you are called to new horizons. Each time, there is the same problem: do I dare? And then if you do dare, the dangers are there, and the help also, and the fulfillment or the fiasco. There's always the possibility of fiasco. But there's also the possibility of bliss.

Eternity isn't some later time. Eternity isn't a long time. Eternity has nothing to do with time. Eternity is that dimension of here and now which thinking and time cuts out. This is it. And if you don't get it here, you won't get it anywhere. And the experience of eternity right here and now is the function of life.

Your life is the fruit of your own doing. You have no one to blame but yourself.

Privation and suffering alone open the mind to all that is hidden to others. (Igjugarjuk)