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.

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

If there were already a path, it would have to be someone else's; the whole point is to find your own way.

All societies are evil, sorrowful, inequitable; and so they will always be. So if you really want to help this world, what you will have to teach is how to live in it. And that no one can do who has not himself learned how to live in it in the joyful sorrow and sorrowful joy of the knowledge of life as it is.

Breaking out is following your bliss pattern, quitting the old place, starting your hero journey, following your bliss. You throw off yesterday as the snake sheds its skin.

When before the beauty of a sunset or a mountain, you pause and exclaim, 'Ah,' you are participating in divinity.

What you have to do, you do with play. The universe is God’s play.