Escape is not a dirty word. None of us can face what's happening head-on all of the time.

Love is more than simply being open to experiencing the anguish of another person's suffering. It is the willingness to live with the helpless knowing that we can do nothing to save the other from his pain. (23)

I have long trusted dreams as prophetic visions. I do not mean that they foretell the future, only that they illuminate the present, when my eyes are closed, so that I may see clearly.

Transformations require that we let go of familiar ways of doing things, without yet knowing what we will do next.

So it is that there is nothing to be taught, but yet there is something to be learned.

It has been a long time since I believed in Reality. I prefer the loveliness and the terror of my subjective experiences to those coldly scientific explanations which in the long run turn out to be no more real, and far less fun, than my own fantasies and musings.

It is not possible to know how much is just enough, until we have experienced how much is more than enough. (64)