He dropped the tavern apron in a heap on the floor and pulled the freshly laundered one up and over his head, tied it with slightly tremoring fingers. The vast whiteness felt like absolution.

The Unction is given to Function, not to Misfunction

The most difficult thing is letting go of something you believed you were born to do, but there is always other options.

Walk neither faster nor slower than your own soul, because it is your soul that will teach you the usefulness of each step you take.

That’s the key to walking through the Wall.... You have to first see it as not being a Wall, even though everyone you know still sees it as a Wall.

The most important decision you'll ever make is how to spend the present moment !

Of what use is it to please the herd? They are simply coarse animals - for all that is admirable in man is the artificial product of special breeding.

I would be a vegetarian if the food was better.

"You marked the minutes," the old man said. "But did you use them wisely? To be still? To cherish? To be grateful? To lift and be lifted?"

Understanding is a form of blindness. Good art, I think, can never be understood.

And it is a quiet terrible thing, too, to discover the value of love this way [after loss] - when the object of love is no longer there, when love dies or goes away or changes. When it is too late.