“There comes a time in each life like a point of fulcrum. At that time you must accept yourself. It is not any more what you will become. It is what you are and always will be. You are too young to know this. You are still becoming. Not being.”

““In Hell you become what you fear yourself to be. In Heaven you may become what you hope yourself to be,” said Lucifer.”

“What is true zazen? What do you mean by Zen becomes Zen and you become you? You become you is a very important point. You become you.”

“There comes a time when you look into the mirror and you realize that what you see is all that you will ever be. And then you accept it. Or you kill yourself. Or you stop looking in mirrors.”

“You look at yourself and you accept yourself for who you are, and once you accept yourself for who you are you become a better person.”

“You become what you do most of the time.”

“There are times when you don't know yourself. There are times when you don't want to know yourself. There are times when you want to be what you have never allowed yourself to be before.”

“No matter who you are, no matter what you did, no matter where you've come from, you can always change, become a better version of yourself.”

“As life goes on it becomes tiring to keep up the character you invented for yourself, and so you relapse into individuality and become more like yourself everyday.”

“The more clearly you understand yourself and your emotions, the more you become a lover of what is.”