“Paradise was always over there, a day’s sail away. But it’s a funny thing, escapism. You can go far and wide and you can keep moving on and on through places and years, but you never escape your own life. I, finally, knew where my life belonged. Home.”
― Getting Stoned with Savages: A Trip Through the Islands of Fiji and Vanuatu
― Getting Stoned with Savages: A Trip Through the Islands of Fiji and Vanuatu
“The Wanderlust has got me... by the belly-aching fire”
― Rhymes of a Rolling Stone
― Rhymes of a Rolling Stone
“You're not sorry to go, of course. With people like us our home is where we are not... No one person in the world is necessary to you or to me.”
― This Side of Paradise
― This Side of Paradise
“In the track of fear we have so many conditions, expectations, and obligations that we create a lot of rules just to protect ourselves against emotional pain, when the truth is that there shouldn't be any rules. These rules affect the quality of the channels of communication between us, because when we are afraid, we lie. If you have the expectation that I have to be a certain way, then I feel the obligation to be that way.The truth is I am bot what you want me to be. When I am honest and I am what I am, you are already hurt, you are mad. Then I lie to you, because I'm afraid of your judgment. I am afraid you are going to blame me, find me guilty, and punish me.”
― The Mastery of Love: A Practical Guide to the Art of Relationship: A Toltec Wisdom Book
― The Mastery of Love: A Practical Guide to the Art of Relationship: A Toltec Wisdom Book
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