it's not about some final destination but rather the road you're on and the fact that you know how to drive.

i understand that there are some gifts we are not given twice, that one day i might regret everything that i had not done and had not lived now, when all things are possible.

and since all things are new, you see only the beauty in them and you feel happy to be alive.  (on travelling)

we must continue to be open in the face of great opposition.  No one is encouraging us to be open and still we must peel away the layers of the heart.

may those who love us, love us
as for those who do not love us, may god turn their hearts
and if he can not turn their hearts, may he turn their ankles
so that we may know them by their limping 
~irish saying

por qué se suicidan las hojas
cuando se sienten amarillas?

las lágrimas que no se lloran
esperan en pequeños lagos?

o serán ríos invisibles
que corren hacia la tristesa?

Tears are our birthright.  The purpose of yoga is to know thyself.  If thyself is having a moment of shimmering depression, let's look at it, then let it go.

An honorable human relationship - that is, one in which two people have the right to use the word "love" - is a process, delicate, violent, often terrifying to both persons involved, a process of refining the truths they can tell each other.  It is important to do this because it breaks down human self-delusion and isolation.  It is important to do this because in so doing we do justice to our own complexity.  It is important to do this because we can count on so few people to go that hard way with us.