The dark night of the soul comes just before revelation.

Our true reality is in our identity and unity with all life.

The problem in our society and in our schools is to inclulcate, without overdoing it, the notion of education, as in the Latin educere--to lead, to bring out what is in someone rather than merely to indoctrinate him/her from the outside. (89)

It is not society which is to guide and save the creative hero, but precisely the reverse.

First you must find your trajectory, and then comes the social coordination.

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.

When you are in accord with nature, nature will yield its bounty. This is something that is coming up in our own consciousness now...recognizi ng that by violating the environment in which we are living, we are really cutting off the energy and source of our own living. And it’s this sense of accord, so that living properly in relation to what has to be done in this world one fosters the vitality of the environment.