“The past cannot survive in your presence. It can only survive in your absence.”

“It's important to know the past, but your survival depends on knowing the present.”

“You can survive on your own; you can grow strong on your own; you can prevail on your own; but you cannot become human on your own.”

“You cannot be a prisoner of your past against your will. Because you can only live in the past inside your mind.”

“The truth is infinite. Whatever you know is only useful to your survival and protective to your senses.”

“The habitual and reactive “no” strengthens the ego. “Yes” weakens it. Your form identity, the ego, cannot survive surrender.”

“Bad things can happen, and often do--but they only take up a few pages of your story; and anyone can survive a few pages.”

“You are all caught in the current of history whose headwaters rise in the dark mountains of the past. You cannot change it; you survive and help others to survive by adapting to it.”

“Absence is the preferable option when your presence has no meaning.”

“If Canada is to survive, it can only survive in mutual respect and in love for one another.”