What we are really living for is the experience of life, both the pain and the pleasure.

The principle of compassion is that which converts disillusionment into a participatory companionship. This is the basic love, the charity, that turns a critic into a living human being who has something to give to - as well as to demand of - the world.

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

I always tell my students, go where your body and soul want to go. When you have the feeling, then stay with it, and don't let anyone throw you off.

When you no longer are compelled by desire and fear . . . when you have seen the radiance in eternity from all forms of time . . . when you follow your bliss . . . doors will open where you would not have thought there were doors . . . and the world will step in and help.

The folktale is the primer of the picture-language of the soul.

All life stinks and you must embrace that with compassion.