Light Lessons

• xv – Prologue – “The stars are glittering. Aye. You. Your wishes. Making them all glitter. You. Shining back at the stars. Wishing.”
• xv – Prologue – “Oh, the world cannot do without the glittering stars. Just as the world cannot do without you.”
• xv – Prologue – “You and the stars are the brightest, the shiniest of everything in the Universe.”

Look into the eyes of those you love. There you will find the Light of the Universe.

• Ch 1/ 7 – “Jesse and Billy laughed like the dish running away with the spoon…”
• Ch 1/ 8 – “Now you boys are fine. So fine.”
• Ch 1/ 8 – “Gahslahzerous! It’s not a thing. It’s an attitude. A glamorous attitude.”
• Ch 1/ 8 – “…her beaming smile that always felt like a blessing.”
• Ch 1/ 9 – “It’s time you were fast asleep – in your deep wispy-slips.”

• Ch 2/ 18 – “You know how important your words are. Try not to use that word ‘should.’ ‘Should’ is full of bossy judging. You don’t need a ‘should’ to guide you.”
• Ch 2/ 18 – “Don’t say ‘should’ at all. Turn your thoughts. Think of your gorgeous Lights. ‘Should’ is not lit up with those Lights, is it? Let your Light guide you.”
• Ch 2/ 18 – “Instead of saying ‘should’, try something like, ‘Isn’t it great that we’re safe? I love feeling the Light… loving me.’”
• Ch 2/ 19 – “So many weavings in our lives. They are the roots of our magic. Who knows what beautiful fabric we shall weave. So fine.”
• Ch 2/ 20 – “The morning sun woke with gold in its mouth.”
• Ch 2/ 20 – “The kitchen clock had no numerals. It always read NOW for every hour.”
• Ch 2/ 21 – She was a tiny little lady with a great big personality – filled with colors.”
• Ch 2/ 21 – “You never know what she will do next. She’s as mad as a box of frogs!”
• Ch 2/ 22 – “She was deaf-as-a-doorstop when she wanted to be. She’s got real ‘hearwaxers.”
• Ch 2/ 23 – “Well me boyo, this too shall pass.” – This too? What does that mean? – “It means you are pals. Always will be. You ain’t seen your last adventure.”
• Ch 2/ 23 – “Don’t press her. Y can’t get milk if the cow ain’t ready.”
• Ch 2/ 24 – “Orchid–da-shus! It’s a real word! Hoity- toity flower!”

• Ch 3/ 25 – “The greatest thing you’ll ever learn is just to love and be loved in return.”
• Ch 3/ 26 – A yoke burst and a yellow stream slid into the pan… that old seeping poison.
• Ch 3/ 26 – Stick with the good feelings. No use aggravating the bear.
• Ch 3/ 26 – “This looks like the end of the story; but it isn’t.” (Beatrix Potter)
• Ch 3/ 27-28 – “In the photo, Jane and James looked so happy. Jesse smiled. They were smiling back at him. Jesse felt a curious flutter. Love. Fluttering. James and Jane. Their smiles seemed to get bigger, and Jesse beamed back at them.”
• Ch 3/ 30 – “I worry about Billy.” – “Ohhh no! Not worry.” “It’s my job to worry. That’s what mothers do.” Jesse wagged his head. “Nooo.”
• Ch 3/ 30 – “Worrying shows how I love Billy.” “No. Love and worry are two different streams of energy. No match. Worry is a black cloud. Love is a shiny Light.”
• Ch 3/ 30 – Teresa’s shoulders sagged. “So now I can’t worry?” “It won’t help.” Jesse’s head wagged and he added, “At all.”
• Ch 3/ 33 – “Jesse truly hums with love. Overflows with love. He’s looking for places to put it…like his ‘disappeared’ grandmother.”
• Ch 3/ 33 – “He knows about spooling out his weaving threads. He believes. And I believe he’ll puzzle her out.”

• Ch 4/ 34-35 – “Glory be to Heaven and fifteen saints! This is fabulush! Thrill-digging! Oh This is the best surprise I could ever wish!
• Ch 4/ 36 – “Owls are nocturnal,” Conor offered. – Jesse answered, “I know owls are not turtles.”
• Ch 4/ 36 – “The magnificent king. Riding a colossal steed. His mighty arms raised high above his head. Each hand holding a sword. Slicing through the sky.”
• Ch4/ 36 – “All this danced into Jesse’s eyes, even when he scrunched them closed. He felt a spark, shimmering within, exploding into: A Quest!”
• Ch 4/ 39 – “We live in so small a place, I have to go outside to change my mind!”
• Ch 4/ 39 – “An unexpected shiveral went up Jesse’s spine. Slowly, he repeated, ‘Disappeared. The place we didn’t look.’”

• Ch 5/ 40 – “Revelations are tricky. Some would never give it a second look. While one whose Light is on, sees the very thing that’s been looked for all along.”
• Ch 5/ 42 – ISLAND “Such charms she lends in every sigh. Her calloused beauty chaps the sky, as, come what may, the winded Four blow salt-spray rosing lullabies.”
• Ch 5/ 42 – ISLAND “Here be the island’s sunset lore. Here be her starry nights that pour their deep sea dreams upon her shore, and hold me fast forevermore.”
• Ch 5/ 42 – ISLAND “In reveries she waits for me… is waiting still… and always will.”
• Ch 5/ 43 – “How the Light seeks, the Light reveals, in more and more Light!”
• Ch 5/ 43 – “You ask, What is real? The things you can touch? More often it’s the things you can’t. Like jumping for joy.”
• Ch 5/ 45 – “I’ll bet you a doughnut hole your ‘disappeared grandmother is a Lady of Light. Like your mother, Jane.”
• Ch 5/ 45 – “You’ll find her a lot easier if you stop calling her ‘disappeared.’ Think on the words you use. You don’t want her to be disappeared.”
• Ch 5/ 46 – “It’s all up to you. You will always have a quest. It’s your life journey. It’s how you go. And more important, it’s how you grow.”
• Ch 5/ 48 – “You just keep your Light on. You’ll find her. Even in the dark.”

• Ch 6/ 50 – “That’s the Triquetra—or the Celtic Knot. It’s the un-ending, weaving circles of the Universe. Eternal. Connected.”
• Ch 6/ 51 – “Tell us a story!” – “Those are the four words that ask for magic. And there are four more words to begin the magic: Once Upon A Time…”
• Ch 6/ 52 – “Music is part of the spooling, weaving energies. You see, the notes flow through Time—as music always does—and goes rippling through the measures of Life.”
• Ch 6/ 54 – The Rule of Tongue: No name-calling. (May all the words on your tongue taste delicious.)
• Ch 6/ 56 – “The earth has had its turn with this stone, filling it with sun, wind, rain…cold and heat. And me. Now you fill it, with your wondrous energies.”
• Ch 6/ 56 – “Nothing is ever lost. It’s somewhere. Just waiting to be found.” (+ Ch 14/ 151-Two to Tango)
• Ch 6/ 57 – “You have a magic in you. It’s real. It’s your Light. No matter what Life tosses your way. Be the Light. Weaving happy-joy-fun-laughing-loving.”
• Ch 6/ 57 – “I like how your eyes go all shiny.” – “That is the Light of our human connections. Our eyes tell us: Yes! Be here. Be now. Be present.”
• Ch 6/ 58 – “Winter—you with your cold, short days, long nights. You and I. Let us find the heart that melts the frost, the soul that lights the stars.”

59 – “A snow fall, much like your life, is made up of billions upon billions of glitters.”

• Ch 7/ 65 – “Digging out the snowy city roadways was slow, slow work. Like a snail riding a turtle.”
• Ch 7/ 66 – Sunlight spread through the glistening mountain of snow. Warm. Bright, like the Lights from New Year’s Eve. I can see my Lights! Even in the daytime!
• Ch 7/ 68 – “He shut his eyes, feeling the rushing sensation. The sense of flying. Glistening Lights swirled behind his eyelids. Inside him. Calm. Deep. Quiet.”
• Ch 7/ 69 – “Like Monet, painted with Light, you chose your joyful, glistening thoughts, and created your joyful, glistening world. Safe. Free! Blue ribbon, you!”
• Ch 7/ 69 – “Impossible only means: I-M-possible! Get it? I am possible!”
• Ch 7/ 70 – “It was a snow mountain of pure whiz-bang-zip-zooming fun!”

• Ch 8/ 73 – “He smiled. He was beginning to understand the “wink” as a little bit of a secret. Sharing a secret. He wasn’t sure what it was, but he liked it.”
• Ch 8/ 74 – “Love and hope often take pleasure in each other.”
• Ch 8/ 76 – “This is about you. No one can make you mad. You chose to be mad. It happened very fast. But it was all you.”
• Ch 8/ 76 – “We get mad when things don’t work out. But mad doesn’t help anything. Mad unplugs your energy. Your Light.” – “Is that why I can’t see straight?”
• Ch 8/77 Maria Montessori: a new way of teaching children. She saw children in a way most people had forgotten; shining with Light, like starlight that each and every baby is born with. Maria polished her little star children, so they’d know how to keep their Light on and shine-shine- shine better than ever.”
• Ch 8/ 77 – “To see children shining with Light, the starlight they are born with. To polish our star children, to keep their Light on and shine-shine-shine.”
• Ch 8/ 77 – “The play of childhood is the greatest teacher.”
• Ch 8/ 78 – “Dreams were carried in his heart. Things wished for, and unexpected.”
• Ch 8/ 79 – “There’s no such thing as a curse. That’s just make-believe. To make people afraid.”
• Ch 8/ 79 – “I’m not afraid. I’m on my quest. Like the brave Knights of the Round Table. I know my quest will come true. Someday. You just have to believe.”
• Ch 8/ 80 – “You always count right-on-the money. You take to figuring like a pancake to syrup!”
• Ch 8/ 82 – “Call it ‘play’ instead of work, then it goes much better.”
• Ch 8/ 83 – “You really only have two feelings: Bad or Good. When you choose the Bad you don’t like the taste, but…you keep chewing on it.”
• Ch 8/ 83 – “Stop chewing on Bad. All it does is spark the Bad in you, and others. It’s how energy works. You’re electricity. And you’re plugged into what you don’t want.”
• Ch 8/ 83 – “Worrying so, being anxious, you’re humming the Bad. Others feel it, and hum back the Bad.”
• Ch 8/ 83 – “You want to hum, and feel, and think the good. You create your hum—your energy stream—in the way you feel.”
• Ch 8/ 83 – “The Universe always says ‘Yes’ to what you’re humming. Good or Bad. It all depends on you. You choose your hum… your feelings. Good or Bad. You choose.”
• Ch 8/ 84 – “Your bad thoughts? They have the same energy to create. Thinking Bad, you create more of the Bad.”
• Ch 8/ 84 – “It is not pleasant to create Bad. So, Light On! Pivot! Leave your bad thoughts. Make your best, bliss-t thoughts. Why waste any of you on the worst?”
• Ch 8/ 84 – “Have a little list of Bests. Practice it in your mind: your friendship, your sharings, your fun. Lots of the bests!” Ch 8/ 85 – “Feel your calm. T-H-I-N-K: T = Take a deep breath / H = Hold myself high / I = Imagine the best / N = Now / K = Know that ALL IS Well. And So It Is!”

• Ch 9/ 86 – “What a wonderful word is ‘thriving’: awakening and flourishing!”
• Ch 9/ 89 – “The Spiral. Like the sacred geometry of the Universe. The perfect spiral building block, curls through so many things, in all the Universe.”
• Ch 9/ 89 – “You look for the spiral, and you’ll find it. That’s how everything works. Especially the spirals of energy.”
• Ch 9/ 89 – “The spiral shows us how we are connected to everythin’ in the Universe. It’s all a never-ending coil that grows and grows, upward and onward. Like our life journey.”
• Ch 9/ 89 – “Nothing like expectation to raise enthusiasms!”
• Ch 9/ 91 – “Love. It’s a great inspiration.”
• Ch 9/ 93 – “How do you solve a problem? – It’s all part of the spiral. All connected.”
• Ch 9/ 93 – “Patience and Fortitude: persistence, and courage in the face of challenge.”
• Ch 9/ 95 – “Be a breath of fresh and cheery.”
• Ch 9/ 97 – “Gemmy ideas: bright, thoughtful little gems.” ”
• Ch 9/ 98 – “Brillish! Full o’ fancy and faerie flecks y’ are.”
• Ch 9/ 99 – “Old Man Winter: the cold days dressed in warm winter woolies, under snug blankets of low gray skies. The early dark nights of glitterin’ stars spiraling through the deep, endless universe…guidin’ your deep, endless journey.”

“The Magic is not to be found in a wand or a potion. The Magic is in you!”

• Ch 10/ 103 – “Winter has released us, and spring is well come.”
• Ch 10/ 104 – “Jot and tittle means every tiny detail. ‘Jot’: iota—i—the tiniest letter in the Greek alphabet; and ‘tittle’ is the tiny dot atop the letter ‘i.’”
• Ch 10/ 106 – “This is so much fun! Everybody has their Lights on!”
• Ch 10/ 107 – “T’is no wonder so many love songs are written. Love and song just go together.”
• Ch 10/ 108 – “We all want to live in Neverland. In the magic. We all hear Peter Pan. Calling us. Into all the cheeky fun. The magical adventure.”
• Ch 10/108 – “Can you do it? Waggle your ears?”
• Ch 10/ 109 – “You and your crazy optimism make for a regular dream factory.”
• Ch 10/110 – “We want to do that every day—change the world for the good!”
• Ch 10/ 110 – “Change the world for the good. Yes! And isn’t that what our theater art does? Helps people to see mankind, and themselves, in a brand new way?”
• Ch 10/ 110 – “Our theater stories give people a new compass to imagine how things could go. And it’s all connected. Everything. And the connections keep reaching out, touching, and making more connections.”
• Ch 10/ 110 – “You’ve come through the world chaos with your…magic…intact. You are the magic!”

• Ch 11/ 114 – A riddle: A box with no hinge, no key, no lid. Yet a golden globe inside is hid.
• Ch 11/ 115 – Inspired, Jesse was bubbling like a teakettle
• Ch 11/ 116 – Surprise – His ears rang with it. His heart sang with it.
• Ch 11/ 116 – Surpassing curious, he opened the folder.
• Ch 11/ 116 – Jesse stared at each photo. He couldn’t help smiling. He liked them.
• Ch 11/117 – Jesse held his mother’s thimble, “Jane left me her kiss!”
• Ch 11/ 118 – “Children just know. Everything. They’re all born knowing that they are the stuff of stars.”

• Ch 12/ 120 “Secrets! Easy to let the cat outta the bag, but y’ can’t get it back in so easy.”
• Ch 12/ 120 “A magician never tells her secrets.”
• Ch 12/ 122 – “If you are not willing to learn, no one can help you. If you are determined to learn, no one can stop you.”
• Ch 12/ 126 – “The older the violin, the sweeter the tune.”
• Ch 12/ 126 – “Ain’t nothin’ like lovin.”

• Ch 13/ 128 – “A secret. She never ever talks about it, but I see her holding her heart—and her eyes are filled with far away.”
• Ch 13/ 130 – “It’s not about how busy you are. The bee is applauded, but the mosquito gets smacked!”

139 – “When you believe in your dream, it bubbles up like a firefly and comes looking for you.”

• Ch 14/ 142 – “We hit it off instantly, like a lost river looking for its wellspring.”
• Ch 14/ 143 – “Precious our words. May we use them so.”
• Ch 14/ 143 – “Hate doesn’t hum with your Light. Remember your Light. Hum with your Light.”
• Ch 14/ 143 – “Hate is a very powerful word. It runs deep into your body, and like a thorn in your back, you can’t reach it to take it out.”
• Ch 14/ 143 – “Hate doesn’t give anybody or anything a chance. And it only gathers more thorns. You certainly don’t want such as word on your tongue.”
• Ch 14/ 146 – “They hung about him like Monday’s laundry.”
• Ch 14/ 147 – “This fog is really thick,” he noted, “like the clouds fell down.”
• Ch 14/ 148 – “Your Dream: when you believe in your dream, it bubbles up like a firefly and comes looking for you.”
• Ch 14/ 148 – “Invite your Dream in. To your party. Your dream is your guest. Treat it with love and fun. Let it know how precious it is. And it cannot resist you!
• Ch 14/ 148 – “Your Dream. Feel it, like it is here. Right now. Remember, it’s all you. Believe.”
• Ch 14/ 149 – “Is there a Beginning? Where is the beginning of a ring? Where is the beginning of wind? Or water? Or fire?”
• Ch 14/ 149 – “Where does a flame come from? And when the match burns out, where does the flame go?”
• Ch 14/ 144 – “When you don’t like something – Pivot. Talk about what you do like. What you do want. Be sure the words on your tongue taste delicious.”
• Ch 14/ 144 – “Let all your words pass through the Remarkable Gates: ~ Is it KIND? Is it TRUE? Is it NECESSARY?
• Ch 14/ 144 – “It’s all the same energy: T-H-I-N-K, Highest & Bliss-t, Rule of Tongue, Remarkable Gates! Light On! All is Well. And So It Is!”
• Ch 14/ 145 – “Give no attention, no energy, to anything Bad. Don’t hum with it. Just hum the good stuff! Nobody has to hear you! Hum inside of you. All good!”

• Ch 15/ 154 – “Happy-fun face… or… sad-mad face. You choose.”
• Ch 15/ 155 – “There are ways you can help, Jesse. You can be kind. And you can keep your Light on.”
• Ch 15/ 156 – “Abe Lincoln once said: ‘It’s so hot I’d like to take off my skin and sit in my bones.’”
• Ch 15/ 158 – “Billy’s face changed. The deep line between his eyebrows disappeared; his hands relaxed, and he touched Jesse’s shoulder. He chuckled. “Really cool.”
• Ch 15/ 160 – “Light on! That’s how dreams work: you keep bubbling—and be brillish together with the Universe. Just let the Universe deliver.”
• Ch 15/ 160 – “Watch your words. Hope is good. A nice place to start. Dreams are entwined with Hope. Just remember, it is belief that makes them come true. Believe.”
• Ch 15/ 160 – “Believe your dream is here right now. No doubts. You’ll see it when you believe it!”
• Ch 15/ 160 – “Happy-up your day! Go through your days in your brillish, happy dream place and see what happens. And you’ll feel so good in the bargain.”
• Ch 15/ 161 – “The world is bent on parading life’s miseries. You have t’ be on the lookout, to choose your best thoughts. Choose the bliss-t!”
• Ch 15/ 161 – “The trees just grow – oblivious to the weather or wearies of the world.”
• Ch 15/ 161 – “That’s the Light! The Light for yourself. And the Light to send to people who really need it. It’s the energy that helps others through the dark.”
• Ch 15/ 161 – “Stick with your happy, brillish Lights. Light the way!”

• Ch 16/ 162 – “There’s good. And there’s bad. Something of everything here on earth. It’s all about what you do with it. The bad’ll teach you to want the good.”
• Ch 16/ 162 – “Bad and Good – it’s the opposites, all leanin’ on each other, one needin’ the other, dependin’ on each other.”
• Ch 16/ 162 – “Good and Bad teach each other. Difficult and Easy support each other. Long and Short define each other. High and Low depend on each other.”
• Ch 16/163 – “And like the sunrise and sunset, Light and Dark begin each other. Who can tell how one will teach the other? Only you.”
• Ch 16/ 163 – “Bad or Good, you create your world. You. Each thought, word, deed. It all becomes. And you become. Like your dreams.”
• Ch 16/ 163 – “Just don’t push your dreams. Let them unfold. Become. All in good time.”
• Ch 16/ 164 – “Be under the stars. Give it a go. Feel the fresh energies.”
• Ch 16/ 165 – “We had to just keep on keepin’ on.”
• Ch 16/ 166 – “Twilight dusted the heavens. Now, the deep purple falls.”
• Ch 16/ 166 – “Slowly, like a beautiful lady, the sky slipped into her black velvet dress and showed off her glittering necklace of stars.”
• Ch 16/ 166 – “Fear not…worry not… for they are but thieves, here to steal your Light.”
• Ch 16/ 168 – “There is nothing like looking up to the stars. So hopeful. So inspiring.”
• Ch 16/ 168 – “This is a perfect night for making a wish and letting it in.”
• Ch 16/ 168 – “Every time you make a wish, it invites life’s energies to come in and play with you. To dance inside you. It’s fun.”
• Ch 16/ 168 – “It’s not about finishing your quest. It’s about the fun of being on your quest.”
• Ch 16/ 168 – “Somewhere, someone is watching the same shooting stars tonight…like we are.”

• Ch 17/ 169 – “With the heat wave gone, everything felt new. As if the world had opened a new door.”
• Ch 17/ 170 – “Y’ see how it goes. Dreams really do come true.”
• Ch 17/ 170 – “Feeling so cantankerous, he kept chewin’ on his worries. The worries just got bigger and blacker, spilling over on everything. And everyone.”
• Ch17/ 171 – “Many a time a man’s mouth broke his nose.”
• Ch 17/ 172 – “When your happy-hum doesn’t match an ornery-hum, you’re arguing north – the other’s arguing south.”
• Ch 17/ 172 – “You can’t make someone happy. You can’t give your happy-hum to anyone. And no one can take your happy-hum. Unless, you let them take it.”
• Ch 17/ 172 – “You don’t have to be right. Love is better than right. Love loves. No matter what.”
• Ch 17/ 172 – “The greatest thing you’ll ever learn… is just to love, and be loved in return.”
• Ch 17/ 173 – “Bad reminds you to find Good. Every time you feel that black eye, you’ll remember to look for your grand Good. Your good hummin’. It’s yer magic.”
• Ch 17/ 173 – ““Y’ may believe in many things. Always believe in your magic.”
• Ch 17/ 173 – “You are fine. So fine. – All is well. And so it is.”
• Ch 17/ 174 – “Never seen the likes of it…. No blamin’.” No findin’ fault. Just love. Only love.”
• Ch 17/ 174 – “When you live in love, that’s what you become: a love.”
• Ch 17/ 175 – “Sometimes, when something bad happens, you think the Light is outside of you. Separate. Like a dark test. But it’s really all about you.”
• Ch 17/ 175 – “When you separate yourself from the Light… you feel so bad… dark. But the Light always IS. It’s always here. Always shining inside you.”
• Ch 17/ 175 – “When you quiet yourself – and drop the dark, bad feelings – you will naturally move back into your Light. It’s waiting for you.”

• Ch 18/ 178 – “You can’t love and worry – one keeps out the other. Your worry flows. Not your love. Your worryin’ energies keep your love away even longer.”
• Ch 18/ 179 – “You just do your own growing, no matter how tall anyone else is.”
• Ch 18/ 181 – “Now I don’t need to go home. Cuz I’m already here. My dream did come true, and it all worked out just right.”
• Ch 18/ 181 – “Y’ see, there’s no such thing as luck. Or coincidence. There is only fusin’ yourself with the Light. The Well-Being that always is.”
• Ch 18/ 181 – “People call it luck when they don’t know their power, when they don’t choose to weave with their glorious Light of Well-Being.”
• Ch 18/ 182 – “It is a matter of mushin: not being attached to anything. We exist in the now moment, allowing all, and we shall find serenity amidst the change.”
• Ch 18/ 182 – “In the art of kintsugi there will be no attempt to hide the damage. To the contrary, we illuminate the repair with shining gold set into every crack.”
• Ch18/ 182 – “All things, all peoples, encounter the fractures, the jolts of life. Love them all into illuminations. Golden illuminations.”
• Ch 18/ 182 – “This is the magic of how you come back to life: You break. You fill yourself with illuminations. Light. You flow on. Humming with the illuminations.”
• Ch 18/ 183 – “When the sharp nasties are left behind, it seems our heart-cracks are indeed filled with gold, and laughter is more to our liking.”
• Ch 18/ 184 – “When things look dark, remember, there is everything you can do. You can turn up your Light and shine it all over. Send out your Light. Light On!”
• Ch 18/ 185 – “He was disappointed. But it was a very small thing. Others had much more than disappointment. He felt a rush of love. For…everything.”

• Ch 19/ 186 – “You are as abundant as you think you are.”
• Ch 19/ 186 – “There are times when your heart rushes after your child, yearning to fulfill his wishes.”
• Ch 19/ 187-188 – “When you can’t make something happen, you have to trust: it’s all working out. Believe.”
• Ch 19/ 190 – “You know you are in the Magic when Time falls into your life like the next best thing.”

239 – “There is not one simple note in a symphony that makes it so. There is not one step in a dance. There is not one moment in a child. It is in the flow. Therein lies the magic.”

• Ch 20/ 194 – “Whenever you hear bells ringing, it is a time to stop and wonder. And breathe… energies in, energies out.”
• Ch 20/ 194 – “The Irish believe that ringing bells call forth the faeries, who are a magical presence. So, ring the bells to invite the magic!”
• Ch 20/ 195 – “Look for the shine-y bright Light in others.”
• Ch 20/ 197 – “A belief is simply a thought that you keep thinking. You hear something, see something, and it makes you believe in it.”
• Ch 20/ 197 – “Believe in who you are. When you do that, others will believe in you.”
• Ch 20/ 199 – “It is an amazement! We act like we are having fun, and we end up truly having fun! Laughter is contagious!”

• Ch 21/ 205 – “Did you lose something? It’ll turn up. Just when you least expect it. Carry on, and let it find you.”
• Ch 21/ 205 – “Chess is like a moving puzzle. You have to plan ahead for each piece, each move, especially because each piece moves in its own special way.”
• Ch 21/ 206 – “Chess is like a quest. A journey with a lot of moving pieces. Y’ learn with each move.”
• Ch 21/ 206 – “If a road doesn’t have any snags, most likely it doesn’t lead anywhere. Snags are a part of your journey. It’s all in how you deal with the snags.”

• Ch 22/ 212 – “The ‘Doughnut’ song – You know: ‘Doughnut—No Cheese—Pasta— Pasta.’”
• Ch 22/ 212 – “Actually, there is no such thing as NOW. ’Cause, as soon as you say NOW, it’s gone. It’s past.”
• Ch 22/ 212 – “Remembrance Day is a tender sorrow. When we let the Light in, it shines on everything. And the happy celebrating can open up the sad missing.”
• Ch 22/ 213 – ““If you have Love, you don’t need to have anything else. And if you do not have Love, it doesn’t matter what else you have.” (J.M. Barrie)
• Ch 22/ 213 – “The greatest thing you’ll ever learn is just to love and be loved in return… a perfect love song.”
• Ch 22/ 213 – “I wish I could find my knife. But I know I have to be easy and let my knife find me.”
• Ch 22/ 213 – “Feel your loved ones – dead or alive. There is not a wall, nor even a veil between. They’re right here. Oh, how they have loved you. Love you still.”
• Ch 22/ 214 – “Love is past, present, and future.”
• Ch 22/ 214 – “Everything is like a puzzle, waiting to fit together.”

• Ch 23/ 222 – “Hark! Bring a Light—Into this night— Hurry I say—Show them the way!”
• Ch 23/ 222 – “Yes! Light the lantern—One candle will turn— hopeless despairing— back to the Light. This is the Light…. Brighten this night….”
• Ch 23/ 223 – “There is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humor.”
• Ch 23/ 224 – “Fibonocci’s equation perfectly imitates the spirals in nature.”
• Ch 23/ 224 – “Sometimes I feel the spiral inside me—like a twirled-up spring, and boing! Wisky-dooley! A light goes on in my head! And I know something new!”
• Ch 23/ 224 – “Maybe someday in the future we’ll find out that we really are made of spirals all coiled up inside us.

• Ch 24/ 227 – “The Girl Who Flew: ‘Be easy. Climb up a little more! Follow the Light!’”
• Ch 24/ 228 – “Lady Bird: You are the bird song, the seeker of the sun, and the Light in the darkness. You take others into the sunlight. Into the sky.”

• Ch 25/ 233 – “Vive bene. Spesso l’amore. Di risata molto! Si! Si! Si!” – It’s Italian: Live well. Speak love. Laugh much! And say, Yes! Yes! Yes! To everything!”
• Ch 25/ 235 – “THAT was a never-forgetter! F’r sure! NEVER! EVER FORGETTER!”
• Ch 25/ 235 – “ Every one of the children, every one of the cast, every stagehand, every costumer, Dearie and Bobby Lewis, they all knew. It was magic.
• Ch 25/ 235 – “Jesse couldn’t sleep. He was still high up in the clouds. Every thrill. Living it all over again. He never wanted it to end.”
• Ch 25/ 235 – “The rim of the world puts the sun to bed and wakes it in the morning. This is where you sleep and dream.”
• Ch 25/ 235-236 – “I’m still thrill-digging! I feel like my fly-wires are connected to the stars and I’m flying through the Milky Way!”
• Ch 25/236 – “His grin was so big, his mouth was ready to explode!”
• Ch 25/ 236 – ‘When you can’t sleep at night it’s because you’re awake in someone else’s dream.’”

239 – “When the world says No, love says Yes”.

• Ch 26/ 242 – “She thought her loves were lost in a dark divide of death. Yet every shared love-moment came back. Inside the Light. In love and laughter.”
• Ch 26/ 242 – “She came back to the glories of life. Like a conversation with angels. In the endless circle of life.”
• Ch 26/ 243 – “Life is always in the Light. Waiting for you…to stand in the Light, too.”
• Ch 26/ 243 – “Just like being in this play. Coming and going on a stage. Coming and going in life and death. It’s all the same.”
• Ch 26/ 243 – “Follow your dreams and there is no end. It is…glorious. Glorious!”
• Ch 26/ 244 – “You always say that a glitch is usually because you’re blocking energy.”
• Ch 26/ 244 – “Everything and everyone lives on, in our heart energies.”
• Ch 26/ 245 – “His eyes watched her – inside a glittering circle of Light, radiating, spinning, sparkling. He felt himself floating. Floating, sparkling, with her.”
• Ch 26/ 246 – “The spotlight followed her, gliding in a bright beam of light.”
• Ch 26/ 246 – “He saw a slow spiraling, glittering glow all about her. Hundreds of thousands of tiny, dazzling Lights, hovering about her.”
• Ch 26/ 246 – “His eyes were filled with a beautiful Light. Glowing. Shining. He stared. And stared. A beautiful expression filling his face.”
• Ch 26/ 248 – “There are things you cannot see. Yet, you know they are here. Like gravity, like the wind. Like love.”
• Ch 26/ 248 – “He felt the sweetness of her love wrap around him, like a warm blanket, all around his heart.”

• Ch 27/ 251 – “She touched his cheek. Patted his heart. Took his hand. Their fingers whispered to each other. And he let her go.”
• Ch 27/ 251 – “Cookies they had baked just for him… he could smell the sweet aroma. He liked their love-hug, holding him in their little circle.”
• Ch 27/ 252 – “They stood. Together. Silently looking out at the city going on about its business, as if the world had not turned into a tangle of upside downs.”
• Ch 27/ 252 – “He put his cheek to her little cat body, feeling her heartbeat. He breathed. A real breath. He liked the quiet. Just…being.”
• Ch 27/ 253 – “He stared at the flowers and said the word over and over in his head. ‘Ranunculus’. A real flower. A real word.”
• Ch27/ 253 – “She is just away. She has left us dreaming, while she wandered into an unknown land… And how very fair it must be, since she lingers there.”
• Ch 27/ 253 – “Think of her faring on, as dear in the love of There, as the love of Here. Think of her as still the same love.”
• Ch 27/ 254 – “How her words and laughter and music lit up our dreams or helped us through a dark time.”
• Ch 27/ 254 – “When you have loved a person, and that person has loved you, deeply, so deeply, then there are parts of her that death can’t have, can’t claim.”
• Ch 27/ 254 – “That person, that lovely, loving person belongs to you now. Death can’t have all of her.”
• Ch 27/ 254 – “All of us bless-ed ones, who have been touched by her, will always have a little piece of her. Inside each of us.”
• Ch 27/ 255 – “Coincidences could be a loved one, reaching out from the Great Illuminations – if you are open to seeing, hearing, feeling.”

• Ch 28/ 259 – “They fell into their beds like sugar cubes plopping into hot coffee, melting into their pillows of sleep.”
• Ch 28/ 260 – “A bend in a road is never the end of the road, unless you don’t make the turn.”

• Ch 29/ 267 – “My foolish foolishness.”
• Ch 29/ 268 – “Our thoughts and words are real. Powerful. Flowing electricity. That’s how we plug in with each other. So, get into your bliss-t—and Light on!”
• Ch 29/ 268 – “You know: keep your heart-Light on. Wait for our good thoughts to help you, whatever happens.”
• Ch 29/ 268 – “We must go forward. For we can’t go back.”
• Ch 29/ 269 – “All at once, he felt his running turn into a flowing…. He was flowing in a bubble of Light. Effortless.”
• Ch 29/ 270 – “Jesse was crying full on. Tears. Burning through the chain-link knots in his head. Knots in his stomach. In his heart.”
• Ch29/ 270 – “He cried with fatigue. With worn-out weariness. He cried with the stale, exhausting effort of not crying in all this time.”
• Ch 29/ 270 – “Finally, his body let go…let go of the numb, protective armor: his shield against the wasteland of his grief and heartache. Melting. Letting go.”
• Ch 29/ 270 – “In his free-flowing tears he unexpectedly felt the shreds of dark dazzlings. Swirling, soaring, spiraling glitters. He looked. For his Light.”
• Ch 29/ 270 – “The sun on the water… like diamonds… filling his eyes. His eyes saw a shimmering circle of Light, like a gift, wrapped in sparkling tinsel.”
• Ch 29/ 273 – “He picked him up, with arms and legs wrapping around him like the ribbons of a gift.”
• Ch 29/ 273 – “All right. All right now. There’s been enough excitement to fill an elephant’s trunk.”

• Ch 30/ 276 – “You have so many circles of love around you.
• Ch 30/ 277 – “Like the new kitchen sponge, his heart was filled up, dripping big drops of love all over.”
• Ch 30/ 280 – “The Universe has no ending and no beginning. It just is. And every time we dream and wish, and laugh and love, the Universe gets a little bigger.”
• Ch 30/ 281 – “The brillish stars seemed to laugh with them, and they lay breathless, staring at the beautiful cosmos… so many stories, adventures, connections.”
• Ch 30/ 281-282 – “As if he had floated up above the roof, he saw themselves lying there, each so full of their wishes. Why, their bodies were humming with them.”
• Ch 30/ 282 – “Feel your wish. Like it’s here right now. Feel it. As the secret treasure in your heart.”
• Ch 30/ 283 – “But now you really know. The way you feel is everything. When you feel angry and frustrated and you attract trouble, fear, and worry.”
• Ch 30/ 283 – “It was my quest. Like King Arthur. But I think…well…I didn’t have a pure heart…and my Light wasn’t on.”
• Ch 30/ 283 – “It was you, Jesse. Dark inside. You stepped out of the Light. You needed to pivot. Back. Into the Light. And you did!”
• Ch 30/ 283 – “Now I really, really know. It’s me. What I think and what I hum.”
• Ch 30/ 284 – “He felt Light. He thought of the theater lights, footlights, spotlights, mirror lights. Lights inside him. Lights in his eyes. In his heart. Forever Lights. Forever.”
• Ch 30/ 285 – “It was over too fast. Their hearts spilled over. Like no one ever wanted it to end.”
• Ch 30/ 285 – “So. Everything moves on. But love stays. In your heart. For sure.”
• Ch 30/ 285 – “Happy smiles were connected to their shining, wet eyes. Happy and sad. Both.”
• Ch 30/ 285 – “Your dream. Your quest. Life’s energies coming in to play with you. The energy dancing inside you.”
• Ch 30/ 185 – “That is what your quest is all about. It’s not finishing your quest. It’s
•  about the thrill of being on your quest.”
• Ch 30/ 286 – “The street was hung in twilight purples and Jesse held Conor’s hand. Just because.”
• Ch 30/ 286 – “He felt Mac holding them. The way Pa used to do. Strong and gentle. He wanted to stay in this embrace. Just be. Stay. Just a little longer.”
• Ch 30/ 287 – “Jesse hmphed another little smile and hugged his heart. His heart. It was filled with Dearie.”
• Ch 30/ 287 – “So, you’ve done it, Jesse. You got clear. And you brought Dearie into your heart. And here she be. You and Dearie and the Universe, playing together. Blue ribbon, you!”
• Ch 30/ 288 – “Love. It really is the greatest thing…the greatest thing you’ll ever learn.” – “It’s your song, Jesse. It always will be.” – “Yes.