Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end.

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I see you everywhere, in the stars, in the river, to me you're everything that exists; the reality of everything.

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I feel all shadows of the universe multiplied deep inside my skin.

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One must learn to be silent just as one must learn to talk.

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But I don't think of the future, or the past, I feast on the moment. This is the secret of happiness, but only reached now in middle age.

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The only advice ... that one person can give another about reading is to take no advice, to follow your own instincts, to use your own reason, to come to your own conclusions.

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We are the words; we are the music; we are the thing itself.

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I am rooted, but I flow.

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The great revelation perhaps never did come. Instead there were little daily miracles, illuminations, matches struck unexpectedly in the dark.

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I am overwhelmed with things I ought to have written about and never found the proper words.

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