“Even more so than when we are awake, we are ourselves when we are asleep. We play all the parts.”

“We are cut, we are fallen. We are become part of that unfeeling universe
that sleeps when we are at our quickest and burns red when we lie
asleep.”

“There's much more in any given moment than we usually perceive, and that we ourselves are much more than we usually perceive. When you know that, part of you can stand outside the drama of your life.”

“God cannot take sides; for He is in all of us. We are all a part of Him, and when we try to destroy Him, we destroy ourselves.”

“Life's a show and we all play a part
And when the music starts
We open up our hearts”

“We spend a good part of our lives dreaming, especially when we're awake.”

“When we are self-conscious, we cannot be wholly aware; we must throw ourselves out first. This throwing ourselves away is the act of creativity. So, when we wholly concentrate, like a child in play, or an artist at work, then we share in the act of creating. We not only escape time, we escape our self-conscious selves.”

“We may win when we lose, if we have done what we can; for by so doing we have made real at least some part of that finished product in whose fabrication we are most concerned: ourselves.”

“We are more likely to love our work when we see it as play.”

“We deny the parts of ourselves that we deem unacceptable rather than accepting the fact that we're all less than perfect.”