I learned that the search for God is a Dark Night, that Faith is a Dark Night. And that’s hardly a surprise really, because for us each day is a dark night. None of us knows what might happen even the next minute, and yet still we go forward. Because we trust. Because we have Faith.

But that moment exists - a moment when all the power of the stars becomes a part of us and enables us to perform miracles.

The Warrior knows about the "waterfall effect".

Each person is different and each one will reach God by his or her own path.

Writing is one of the most solitary activities in the world.

Life takes us by surprise and orders us to move toward the unknown -even when we don't want to and when we think we don't need to.

We must play music quietly, talk quietly, weep in private, because I am the all-powerful Zahir, who lays down the rules and determines the distance between railway tracks, the meaning of success, the best way to love, the importance of rewards.