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“Joy knows itself. As children we didn’t even know the word joy, we were joy.”
― The Perfume of Silence
― The Perfume of Silence
“Love in all its forms is the most important matter that we will ever face, but also the most dangerous, the most unpredictable, the most maddening. But it is also the only salvation I know of”
― The Cost for Love We are Not Willing to Pay
― The Cost for Love We are Not Willing to Pay
“You can hardly say of your soul what sex it is. But if you pay close attention, you will see that the most masculine man has a feminine soul, and the most feminine woman a masculine soul.”
― The Red Book: Liber Novus
― The Red Book: Liber Novus
“In the green escape of my palace, over a bridge, under a canopy of opalescent light, through there, between dark branches and their shivering leaves, I'm lost in the scent of yellow roses, arrested by the range's filtering light.”
― There: In the Light and the Darkness of the Self and of the Other
― There: In the Light and the Darkness of the Self and of the Other
“We are one huge universe speaking and listening to itself.”
― The Perfume of Silence
― The Perfume of Silence
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