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

The adventure evoked a quality of his character that he didn't know he possessed.

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.

If you want to find out what it means to have a society without any rituals, read the New York Times.

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.

Following your bliss is not self-indulgent, but vital; your whole physical system knows that this is the way to be alive in this world and the way to give to the world the very best that you have to offer. There IS a track just waiting for each of us and once on it, doors will open that were not open before and would not open for anyone else.

The privilege of a lifetime is beingwho you are.The goal of the hero tripdown to the jewel pointis to find those levels in the psychethat open, open, openand finally open to the mystery of your Selfbeing Buddha consciousnessor the Christ.That's the journey.