You are led through your lifetime by the inner learning creature, the playful spiritual being that is your real self. Don't turn away from possible futures before you're certain you don't have anything to learn from them. The gulls who scorn perfection for the sake of travel go nowhere, slowly. You are not little because you are already grown, playing among your lifetimes as do we all, for the fun of living. You are not the child of the people you call mother and father, but their fellow-adventurer on a bright journey to understand the things that are. You don't want a million answers as much as you want a few forever questions. The questions are diamonds you hold in the light. Study a lifetime and you see different colors from the same jewel. Your friends will know you better in the first minute you meet than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years. You're always free to change your mind and choose a different future, or a different past. Look in a mirror and one thing's sure; what we see is not who we are. What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly. We generate our own environment. We get exactly what we deserve. How can we resent a life we've created ourselves? Who's to blame, who's to credit but us? Who can change it, anytime we wish, but us? | 
