I knew it,’ she says. ‘I knew I had met you before. I knew it the first time I saw your photograph. It’s as if we had to meet again at some point in this life. I talked to my friends about it, but they thought I was crazy, that thousands of people must say the same thing about thousands of other people every day. I thought they must be right, but life… life brought you to me. You came to find me, didn’t you?

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.

Do not try to explain feelings. Live everything intensely and treasure what you feel as a gift from God.

Go further than you planned. Ask for the moon: you will be surprised how often you get it

You can achieve anything if you believe in yourself. But the opposite is also true; without strong self-belief you will not go far.

The same goes for envy, anger and insults - said the master. - When they are not accepted, they continue to belong to the one who carried them.

There are moments when troubles enter our lives and we can do nothing to avoid them.