Questing... is not an ego trip; it is an adventure to bring into fulfillment your gift to the world, which is yourself.

How to get rid of ego as dictator and turn it into messenger and servant and scout, to be in your service, is the trick.

You've got to find the force inside you.

What if we choose not to do the things we are supposed to do? The principal gain is a sense of an authentic act - and an authentic life. It may be a short one, but it is an authentic one, and that's a lot better than those short lives full of boredom. The principal loss is security. Another is respect from the community. But you gain the respect of another community, the one that is worth having the respect of.

All the old bindings are broken. Cosmological centers now are anywhere and everywhere. The earth is a heavenly body, most beautiful of all, and all poetry is now archaic that fails to match the wonder of this view.

If you want to see what a society really believes in, look at what the biggest buildings on the horizon are dedicated to.

Computers are like Old Testament gods; lots of rules and no mercy.