If you're always looking at someone else, trying to imitate them, how can your natural gifts ever emerge?

Don't turn away from possible futures before you're certain you don't have anything to learn from them.

Everything of this life as a mortal is fiction. It seems real, but...

Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.

You are led through your lifetime by the inner learning creature, the playful spiritual being that is your real self.

One of the great cosmic laws, I think, is that whatever we hold in our thought will come true in our experience. When we hold something, anything, in our thought, then somehow coincidence leads us in the direction that we've been wishing to lead ourselves.

Jonathan Seagull discovered that boredom and fear and anger are the reasons that a gull's life is so short, and with those gone from his thought, he lived a long fine life indeed.