The priests used to say that faith can move mountains, and nobody believed them. Today the scientists say that they can level mountains, and nobody doubts them.

For we have not even to risk the adventure alone, for the heros of all time have gone before us.

Poetry comes out of an elite experience, the experience of people whose ears are opened to the song of the universe.

We keep thinking of deity as a kind of fact, somewhere; God as a fact. God is simply our own notion of something that is symbolic of transcendence and mystery. The mystery is what’s important.

You are the Hero of your own Story.

The best things cannot be told because they transcend thought. The second best are misunderstood because they are the thoughts that are supposed to refer to that which cannot be thought about. The third best are what we talk about.

One can experience an unconditional affirmation of life only when one has accepted death, not as contrary to life, but as an aspect of it.