“We run carelessly over the precipice after having put something in front of us to prevent us seeing it.”

“We run heedlessly into the abyss after putting something in front of us to stop us seeing it.”

“Before we can begin to see the cross as something done for us, we have to see it as something done by us.”

“Our notions about happiness entrap us. We forget that they are just ideas. Our idea of happiness can prevent us from actually being happy. We fail to see the opportunity for joy that is right in front of us when we are caught in a belief that happiness should take a particular form.”

“A journey, after all, neither begins in the instant we set out, nor ends when we have reached our door step once again. It starts much earlier and is really never over, because the film of memory continues running on inside of us long after we have come to a physical standstill. Indeed, there exists something like a contagion of travel, and the disease is essentially incurable.”

“We see what we want to see in life, regardless of whether it's really in front of us or not...”