“Whatever the composition of this new world might be, I surely have no choice but to accept it in silence.”
“Do not accept whatever comes. Do not accept whatever goes. You have infinite power. Exercise your choice.”
“Whatever you choose, your choice will mean there are two new worlds. And perhaps sometimes, on the edge of sleep, we will see the shadow of the other world. There will be no unhappy memories.”
“I chose and my world was shaken. So what. The choice might have been mistaken, but choosing was not.”
“A pause. It might have been pregnant. I’ve never been sure how to tell if a silence has conceived or not.”
“The achievement of maturity, psychologically speaking, might be said to be the realization and acceptance that we simply cannot live independently from the world, and so we must live within it, with whatever compromises that might entail.”