You are led through your lifetime by the inner learning creature, the playful spiritual being that is your real self.

Not being known doesn't stop the truth from being true.

What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly.

That's what learning is, after all: not whether we lose the game, but how we lose and how we've changed because of it, and what we take away from it that we never had before, to apply to other games. Losing, in a curious way, is winning.

[T]here is such a thing as perfection . . . and our purpose for living is to find that perfection and show it forth . . . .