People no longer try to decipher the mystery of life but choose instead to be a part of it.

She [the Virgin Mary] was normal. She had already had other children. The Bible tells us that Jesus had two brothers. Virginity, as it relates to Jesus, is based on a different thing: Mary initiated a new generation of grace. A new era began. She is the cosmic bride, Earth, which opens to the heavens and allows itself to be fertilized.

Pain, loss and separation are inevitable on the path of love, and the only way of avoiding them is by deciding not to take that path at all. In order not to suffer, you have to renounce love.It was like putting out your own eyes in order not to see the bad things in life.

My brained warned me, but my heart didn't want to take its advice.

And the best way to know who we are is often to find out how others see us.

The music could even penetrate his remote world, more distant than the moon itself; it could even perform miracles.

I am who I was and who I will be.