It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.’

So the study of love has brought me to the study of life. To live in love is to live in life, and to live in life is to live in love.

Finally, what is essential is not only to take from life, but it is essential that you put something back into it.

A wonderful realization will be the day you realize that you are unique in all the world. There is nothing that is an accident. You are a special combination for a purpose—and don’t let them tell you otherwise, even if they tell you that purpose is an illusion. (Live an illusion if you have to.) You are that combination so that you can do what it i

I think of Leo as a vast chunk of blotting paper, and nothing escapes imprinting itself on his quick eye, awesome intellect, and generous heart.

But the most important needs of all are what we need in ourselves—a need to be seen, a need to be known, a need to be recognized, a need for achievement, a need to enjoy our world, a need to see the continual wonder of life, a need to be able to see how wonderful it is to be alive.

Our senses limit, our central nervous system limits, our personal and cultural categories limit, our language limits, and beyond all these selections, then, the rules of science cause us to further select information which we consider to be true and it, too, limits. Everywhere we turn, we are being limited. Yet all this can change. You can change y

No one that I know can vanish quite so fast nor quite so far as Leo when he feels the need to replenish his energy, his awareness, his life forces.

“You are all you have. Therefore, make yourself the most beautiful, tender, wonderful, fantastic person in the world. And then you will always survive.”