"Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage."
"The dream was always running ahead of me.
To catch up, to live for a moment in unison with it,
that was the miracle."
"There are very few human beings who receive the truth,
complete and staggering, by instant illumination.
Most of them acquire it fragment by fragment, on a small scale,
by successive developments, cellularly,
like a laborious mosaic."
