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"...then does the possibility of mature love exist. If one person is in love and the other not, the cooler one is likely to say, 'We would have something better between us if you would look at me rather than at your image of me.'"

Mandorlas reveal the place where light and dark meet--the almond section of two partially overlapping circles.

Religion, when defined using Latin roots, means "to bind together again."

"One does a curious kind of insult to another by falling in love with him, for we are really looking at our own projection of God, not at the other person. If two people are in love, they tread on star dust for a time and live happily ever after--that is so long as this experience of divinity has obliterated time for them. Only when they come down to earth do they have to look at each other realistically and only..."

Re: burnout: "I told him he...would have to contact the unlived shadow if he wished to find a new vitality...His involuntary swearing had been a good start. Correctly handled, this would lead to a new source of creativity and give him a new lease on life. Stupidly handled, it would lead only to destruction, and to the loss of form and structure. Heaven and skid row are separated only by an act of consciousness."

"To the mind which pursues every road to its end, every road leads nowhere. To abstain is not to postpone the cold disillusionment of the true facts but to see that one arrives by staying rather than going, that to be forever looking beyond is to remain blind to what is here."

"The evil of man far exceeds the evil of the spider or the shark, but only because the goodness of man immeasurably exceeds the goodness of a spring landscape. One has only to consider how cold and desolate the fairest face of nature can seem to a man left utterly alone, willing to exchange the whole sum of natural beauty for a single human face."

"There is a certain part of all of us that lives outside of time." -Milan Kundera