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“Adrift in the endless night, I’ve wished on the stars far-flung not knowing each spec of light was the dust of my own dreams shattered in another life —embedded in the horizon in the blast wave that shattered me into the mosaic of a melancholic, alcoholic dreamer drunk on this insatiable yearning to connect with another because I can’t find myself.”

“The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.”

“Resolve to be thyself: and know that he who finds himself, loses his misery.”

“Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.”

“People often say that this or that person has not yet found himself. But the self is not something one finds, it is something one creates.”

“The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, and forgetting that you are special too.”

“The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.”

“People take different roads seeking fulfilment and happiness. Just because they're not on your road doesn't mean they've gotten lost.”

“Have you ever lost yourself in a kiss? I mean pure psychedelic inebriation. Not just lustful petting but transcendental metamorphosis when you became aware that the greatness of this being was breathing into you. Licking the sides and corners of your mouth, like sealing a thousand fleshy envelopes filled with the essence of your passionate being and then opened by the same mouth and delivered back to you, over and over again - the first kiss of the rest of your life.”

“Ask yourself what makes you come alive.”

“My contention is that as long as you have other faculties-the emotional, psychological, intuitive faculties-you haven't lost yourself or even diminished yourself. Don't be ashamed when you're physically limited or dysfunctional; don't think that you're any less because of your condition. In fact, I feel I am even more myself than I was before I got this illness because I have been able to transcend many of the psychological and emotional limitations I had before I developed ALS.”

“Just because they're not on your road doesn't mean they've gotten lost.”

“The end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started.”

“We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.”