To see the angel in the malady requires an eye for the invisible, a certain blinding of one eye and an opening of the other to elsewhere.

Reconnecting to the animal means getting to a more sensitive, more artful and more humorous place in the psyche.

I'm cautious about a lot of words

You may not become a celebrity. You may even experience lots of illness or divorce, or unhappiness. But I think there is still a thread of individual character that determines how you live through those things.

I've found that contemporary psychology enrages me with its simplistic ideas of human life, and also its emptiness.

It's better to go into the world half-cocked than not to go into the world at all.

Too often in the west we fail to realize that even in eastern disciplines the spiritual life is not meant as an escape from the worldly life. There is karma to be fulfilled on earth, within the dharma of necessity.