On some nights, he has nowhere to sleep, on others he suffers from insomnia. "That's just how it is," thinks the warrior. "I was the one who chose to walk this path."

In a few more days I'd anticipated telling Veronika that our injections had cured her heart condition. But in light of her unscheduled departure form Villette my telling that particular lie will not be required. The majority of people who attempt suicide repeat that attempt until they succeed. I took a risk in lying to her about her condition, i decided to test the only remedy i have come to have any faith in: awareness of life. Until she finds out from some other doctor that she is perfectly healthy. She'll consider each day a miracle. Which in my view it is.

Never cease doubting. When the doubts stop it is because you have stopped journeying.

Don't try to be useful. Try to be yourself: that is enough & that makes all the difference.

To attain his dream, the warrior of light needs a strong will and an enormous capacity for acceptance.

The energy that many people call love, is, in fact, the raw material from which the universe was built.

I cannot lose the one thing that keeps me alive : hope -