“Pain can be endured and defeated only if it is embraced. Denied or feared, it grows in perception if not in reality. The best response to terror is righteous anger, confidence in ultimate justice, a refusal to be intimidated.”
“Letting go of fear, attachment, grief and anger is the sannyasin's renunciation. He savours only the taste of his oneness with the ultimate reality.”
“As it turned out, my perception was so much more intimidating than the reality.”
“If you can learn to endure pain, you can survive anything. Some people learn to embrace it—to love it. Some endure it through drowning it in sorrow, or by making themselves forget. Others turn it into anger. But Ansel let her pain become hate, and let it consume her until she became something else entirely—a person I don’t think she ever wished to be”
“Reality is a changeless concept that only perception can mask.”
“ When perception and reality collide, we grow".”