Before a dream is realized, the Soul of the World tests everything that was learned along the way. It does this not because it is evil, but so that we can, in addition to realizing our dreams, master the lessons we’ve learned as we’ve moved toward that dream. That’s the point at which most people give up. It’s the point at which, as we say in the language of the desert, one 'dies of thirst just when the palm trees have appeared on the horizon.

You may not be winning, but this doesn't mean you are losing

We are our own greatest surprise.

To injure your opponent is to injure yourself.

No one can manipulate anyone else. In any relationship, both parties know what they're doing. even if one complains later on that they were used.

If everyone there just lived their lives and let others do the same, God would be in every moment, in every grain of mustard, in the fragment of cloud that is there and then gone the following moment. God was there and yet people believed they still had to go on looking, because it seemed too simple to accept that life was an act of faith.

Love is only a small thing, enough for one person, and any suggestion that the heart might be larger than this is considered perverse.