“Wisdom or enlightenment is not white, black or brown – it’s not christian, muslim, jew, hindu or atheist – it’s not homosexual or heterosexual – it’s not reductionist, empirical or sentiment...”

“Faith in God is optional, but faith in the self – in the spirit within, is imperative.”

“Security breeds insecurity, independence breeds discovery.”

“Love is so short, forgetting is so long.”

“There are as many styles of beauty as there are visions of happiness.”

“At first we had so much to catch up on we were talking a hundred words a second, barely even listening to the ends of one another's sentences before moving onto the next. And there was laugh...”

“It becomes apparent that it would be impossible to feel alone as we are intimately connected to a thriving life-force.”

“It is our deepest hurts which have the power to help and heal us. What else carries an internal fire big enough to force us forwards? What else has the momentum to wake us up? What else has...”

“Indoctrination is not just demeaning to the human conscience, it is lethal for the flourishing psychology of the hungry, young mind.”