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

The conquest of the fear of death is the recovery of life's joy. One can experience an unconditional affirmation of life only when one has accepted death, not as contrary to life, but as an aspect of life. Life in its becoming is always shedding death, and on the point of death. The conquest of fear yields the courage of life. That is the cardinal initiation of every heroic adventure - fearlessness and achievement.

Life is like arriving late for a movie, having to figure out what was going on without bothering everybody with a lot of questions, and then being unexpectedly called away before you find out how it ends.

Suddenly you’re ripped into being alive. And life is pain, and life is suffering, and life is horror, but my god you’re alive and its spectacular.

Myth must be kept alive. The people who can keep it alive are the artists of one kind or another.

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

In marriage you are not sacrificing yourself to the other person. You are sacrificing yourself to the relationship.