“Your past is your shadow. It has form but no substance, except in the places you allow it to touch you.”
“Allow the light to fall across you. Shadow or sunlight. Allow it to define your shape. In its way. Another day it may be different. It surely will be. Are we ever the same? Is the light? And the way a form presses into the grass?”
“Your past forms you, whether you like it or not.”
“Evil (ignorance) is like a shadow-- it has no real substance of itsown, it is simply a lack of light. You cannot cause a shadow todisappear by trying to fight it, stamp on it, by railing against it, orany other form of emotional or physical resistance. In order to cause ashadow to disappear, you must shine light on it”
“Except you cannot outrun insanity, anymore than you can outrun your own shadow.”
“Shut out all of your past except that which will help you weather your tomorrows.”