Doubt grows with knowledge.
The worst Persian voluptuary could never have imagined my most ordinary day.
Looking for enlightenment is like looking for a flashlight when all you need the flashlight for is to find the flashlight.
Step out onto the Planet. Draw a circle a hundred feet round. Inside the circle are 300 things nobody understands, and, maybe nobody's ever really seen. How many can you find?
One might better try to sail the Atlantic in a paper boat, than try to get to heaven on good works.
For Love will still be lord of all.
The truth I know for sure is that if something feels good and makes you happy on the inside, you're probably moving in the right direction.
Here is my best advice on the matter of deductibles: just count off on your fingers all the items that you suspect might be deductible - and then forget them, because they aren't.