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.

The big problem of any young person's life is to have models to suggest possibilities. Nietzsche says, 'Man is the sick animal.' Man is the animal that doesn't know what to do with itself. The mind has many possibilities, but we can live no more than one life. What are we going to do with ourselves?

What will they think of me? Must be put aside for bliss

The call to adventure signifies that destiny has summoned the hero.

And that Aha! that you get when you see an artwork that really hits you is, 'I am that.' I am the very radiance of energy that is talking to me through this painting.

The sin of inadvertence, not being alert, not quite awake, is the sin of missing the moment of life-live with unremitting alertness.

You have been thinking one way. Now you have to think a different way.