Where there is a way or path, it is someone else's. Each of us has to find his own way.

Every myth is psychologically symbolic. Its narratives and images are to be read, therefore, not literally, but as metaphors.

Preachers err by trying to talk people into belief; better they reveal the radiance of their own discovery.

It is by going down into the abyss that we recover the treasures of life. Where you stumble, there lies your treasure.

Our life has become so economic and practical in its orientation that, as you get older, the claims of the moment upon you are so great, you hardly know where the hell you are, or what it is you intended. You are always doing something that is required of you. Where is your bliss station? You have to try to find it.

There is no way you can use the word “reality” without quotation marks around it.

I always feel uncomfortable when people speak about ordinary mortals because I've never met an ordinary man, woman or child.