Only those who have felt the knife can understand the wound, only the jeweller knows the nature of the jewel.

Only those who have felt the knife can understand the wound, only the jeweller knows the nature of the jewel.

What is beyond the mind, has no boundary, In it our senses end.

Don't forget love; it will bring you all the madness you need to unfurl yourself across the universe.

I know a cure for sadness: Let our hands touch something that makes your eyes smile.

But tonight I finally made the connection that change always strolled hand in hand with loss, with upheaval, and that I would always feel it keenly because in the end, I did not live under the same sky as most other people. (p179)

If living on fruits and water is of superior merit, monkeys and fish will go to heaven before men.