Whoever said that love is blind was dead wrong. Love is the only thing on this earth that lets us see each other with the remotest accuracy.

Feel about yourself what you would have others feel about themselves.

I’ll tell you what it’s time to do right now. It’s time to set your schedule in order so that you don’t look back on the day of your death and wonder why you never really lived. It’s time to ignore the opinions of those who think your life should be all about their cause, their rules, their agenda, and not your soul’s desire. It’s time to stop flagellating and start dancing.

Loneliness is proof that your innate search for connection is intact.

The power to bring me out of solitude - or to push me back into it - had never belonged to another person. It was mine and only mine.

Here is the crux of the matter, the distilled essence, the only thing you need to remember: When considering whether to say yes or no, you must choose the response that feels like freedom. Period.

The position that I take partly as a result of living in Asia is where you stop living according to your expectations and you become available to experience things as they are.