What is the cause, though, of the growth of an acorn? The oak that is to come! What is to happen in the future is then the cause of what is occurring now; and, at the same time, what occurred in the past is also the cause of what is happening now. In addition, a great number of things round about, on every side, are causing what is happening now. Everything, all the time, is causing everything else

Our demons are our own limitations, which shut us off from the realization of the ubiquity of the spirit . . . each of these demons is conquered in a vision quest.

The function of the society is to cultivate the individual. It is not the function of the individual to support society.

We are the consciousness of the earth. We are the eyes of the earth. The voice of the earth.

The world, as we know it, is coming to an end. The world as the center of the universe, the world divided from the heavens, the world bound by horizons in which love is reserved for members of the in-group: that is the world that is passing away. Apocalypse does not point to a fiery Armageddon but to the fact that our ignorance and complacency are coming to an end.

There is a God inside my PC. An Old-Testament God with lots of arbitrary rules and utterly no mercy.

When you make the sacrifice in marriage, you're sacrificing not to each other but to unity in a relationship.