As much as I had always longed to be freed of my duties and obligations, being released from such bonds was as much a severing as an emancipation.

Stop longing.You poison today’s ease, reaching always for tomorrow.

I think that old magic draws much of its strength from that acknowledgment: that we are a part of that world.

There is nothing dishonorable about abandoning pain. Sometimes peace is most quickly found when a man simply stops avoiding it.

Leave old pains alone. When they cease coming to call, do not invite them back.

The past is no further away than the last breath you took.

And what do you believe?”A slow smile spread over his face. “I believe in you. You are my new beginning.

...I've returned and I look around me and think, I've missed my life. While I was off and alone, it went on here, without me, and I'm forever doomed to be a stranger in my own home.

Regrets are useless, " the Fool replied. "All you can do is start from where you are.

Despite my pain, I felt not the regret of an ending, but the foreboding of a beginning.

There are no lack of ideas in the Universe… and there is such joy entering into that abundant stream with other connected souls.

When we expand our thinking, we expand who we are as human beings: the perspective from which we view the world, and the concepts and values we use to guide our choices.

His hands are on my back, in my hair, on my hips. His fingers move like I'm Braille, like he's trying to read me just by touching me.

How does one kill fear, I wonder? How do you shoot a specter through the heart, slash off its spectral head, take it by its spectral throat?

In my life there are not that many questions I can't properly deal with using my $40 adding machine and dog-eared compound interest table.

Do you know-I hardly remembered you? Hardly remembered me? I mean: how shall I explain? I-it's always so. Each time you happen to me all over again.

I went to this tattoo parlor in the East Village and I got an outline of a violin on my lower back. They call them tramp stamps now.

If there is love, smallpox scars are as pretty as dimples. I'll love your face no matter what it looks like. Because it's yours.

I had lost something in my youth and made money instead.

Go and preach to all, 'Arise, awake, sleep no more: within each of you there is the power to remove all wants and all miseries. Believe this, and that power will be manifested.