You have to strive every minute to get rid of the life that you have planned in order to have the life that's waiting to be yours. Move, move, move.

What gods are there, what gods have there ever been, that were not from man's imagination?

Instead of clearing his own heart the zealot tries to clear the world.

I don't believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive.

The psychotic drowns in the same waters in which the mystic swims with delight.

Shakespeare said that art is a mirror held up to nature. And that’s what it is. The nature is your nature, and all of these wonderful poetic images of mythology are referring to something in you. When your mind is trapped by the image out there so that you never make the reference to yourself, you have misread the image.

Every religion, every mythology is true in this sense: It is true as metaphorical of the human and cosmic mystery.