“This sense of perfection has a built-in contradiction, one that Ram Dass once captured very succinctly by a statement he had heard from his Himalayan guru: "The world is absolutely perfect, including your own dissatisfaction with it, and everything you are trying to do to change it.”
“Once you individuate from the Guru, you’re on your own Guru journey.”
“But he had been in love once, that he knew. Once and only once, and a long time ago. And it had changed him forever. Perfect love did that to a person and this had been perfect.”
“When a sense of dissatisfaction persists, that means it was placed there by God for one reason only: you need to change everything and move forward.”
“He was looking forward eagerly to seeing her again. He had coped perfectly well on his own, of course, but it was very reassuring to have someone in your life who was always ready to fight for you, and he had missed that comforting feeling,”
“She had once been described, by one who saw below the surface, as a perfectly beautiful woman in an absolutely plain shell.”