The doors to the world of the wild Self are few but precious. If you have a deep scar, that is a door, if you have an old, old story, that is a door. If you love the sky and the water so much you almost cannot bear it, that is a door. If you yearn for a deeper life, a full life, a sane life, that is a door.

Mindful choosing of friends and lovers, not to mention teachers, is critical to remaining conscious, remaining intuitive, remaining in charge of the fiery light that sees and knows.

If logic was anything, all men would ride sidesaddles.

Ours is not the task of fixing the entire world at once, but of stretching out to mend the part of the world that is within our reach.

I have to go to the woods, and I have to meet the wolf, or else my life will never begin.

Any time I find medicine that's helpful, I share it with everyone I know.

The point of art is not simply to express ourselves, but to create an external, concrete form in which the soul of our lives can be evoked and contained.