“This is why dreams can be such dangerous things: they smolder on like a fire does, and sometimes they consume us completely.”

“Dreams can be dangerous things.”

“Humor starts like a wildfire, but then continues on, smoldering, smoldering for years.”

“Stress is like fire: When controlled and used for a purpose, it serves us well. Left unbridled, it can consume us. In amounts that our body is capable of adapting to, certain stresses are beneficial. Exercise, for example, is a stress.”

“Just like two pieces of wood can be rubbed together to produce fire and the same fire later consumes them both, intellect and concentration support the contemplative meditation. But when the fire of insight arises, it consumes both intellect and concentration, giving way to pristine awareness.”

“Desire consumes you, it takes you over. You forget yourself completely. All you can think about is the other, the one you desire, your self is just a fire.”

“The armored cars of dreams contrived to let us do
so many a dangerous thing.”

“Just as camphor is consumed by the flames of fire, so also, mind must be consumed by soul-fire.”

“And where two raging fires meet together, they do consume the thing that feeds their fury.”

“… wanting things for the wrong reasons can turn anyone's life into a marshmallow on a stick over a hot fire: impossibly messy and eventually consumed, one way or another.”