The quest for fire occurred not because anyone knew what the practical uses for fire would be, but because it was fascinating.

A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.

Any god who can invent hell is no candidate for the Salvation Army

Eternity is not the hereafter...this is it. If you don't get it here you won't get it anywhere.

The best advise is to take it all as if it had been your intention.

The key to the Grail is compassion, 'suffering with,' feeling another's sorrow as if it were your own. The one who finds the dynamo of compassion is the one who's found the Grail.

I think that Jean Houston has broken through to a new understanding of the sense and uses of inward-turned contemplation-a n understanding that leaves the Freudian schools of technique and theory far behind. The accent is not on the curing of disease but on the enlargement, rather, of our health.