“Poor Father, I see his final exploration. He arrives at the new place, his hair risen in astonishment, his mouth and eyes dumb. His toe scuffs a soft storm of sand, he kneels and his arms spread in pantomimic celebration, the immigrant, as in every moment of his life, arriving eternally on the shore of his Self.”
“[T]he Enneagram is, at its most abstract, a universal mandala of the self—a symbol of each of us.”
“I wanted to tell him that I had come searching for myself, but those were the words of an idiot.”
“I am the center of an atrocity.”
“We never know self-realization. We are two abysses – a well staring at the sky.”
“The ‘self’ is where our heart and soul are. It’s the mind that’s always elsewhere.”
“To look at everything as if it’s looking at me; as if I am what I see.”
“Hands pulling me under, hands lifting me up, both mine.”
“Never ask a question if you don’t know the answer. — Rhett”