A myth is an image in terms of which we try to make sense of the world.

Inability to accept the mystic experience is more than an intellectual handicap.

One is a great deal less anxious if one feels perfectly free to be anxious, and the same may be said of guilt.

If we live, we live; if we die, we die; if we suffer, we suffer; if we are terrified, we are terrified. There is no problem about it.

Lack of awareness of the basic unity of organism and environment is a serious and dangerous hallucination.

If you are afraid of death, be afraid. The point is to get with it, to let it take over - fear, ghosts, pains, transience, dissolution, and all. And then comes the hitherto unbelievable surprise; you don't die because you were never born. You had just forgotten who you are.

When a man no longer confuses himself with the definition of himself that others have given him, he is at once universal and unique. He is universal by virtue of the inseparability of his organism from the cosmos. He is unique in that he is just this organism and not any stereotype of role, class, or identity assumed for the convenience of social communication.