When one burns one's bridges, what a very nice fire it makes. ...

A fire can, be extinguished; but the flame of desire is never extinguished. Pains affect the body for a while, then cease, and leave you at  rest; but from the pain of desire you never get rest, unless you cure it by the medicine of true  intelligence, and put desire away from you, and learn to abstain; for desire grows in strength if you follow it, but dies away if you turn from it and abstain.

A fire can, be extinguished; but the flame of desire is never extinguished. Pains affect the body for a while, then cease, and leave you at rest; but from the pain of desire you never get rest, unless you cure it by the medicine of true ' intelligence, and put desire away from you, and learn to abstain; for desire grows in strength if you follow it, but dies away if you turn from it and abstain. Hermes my son, thou canst not i possess perfect liberty unless; thou wholly renounce thyself.... Keep this short       and complete saying: 'forsake all and thou shalt find all.'

Time is the substance from which I am made. Time is a river which carries me along, but I am the river; it is a tiger that devours me, but I am the tiger; it is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire.