The principle of compassion is that which converts disillusionment into a participatory companionship. This is the basic love, the charity, that turns a critic into a living human being who has something to give to - as well as to demand of - the world.

Hell is life drying up.

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

The hero, therefore, is the man or woman who has been able to battle past his personal and local historical limitations.

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

Truth is one, the sages speak of it by many names.

The essence of oneself and the essence of the world: these two are one. [ The aim is not to see, but to realize that one is, that essence; then one is free to wander as that essence in the world.] Hence separateness, withdrawal, is no longer necessary. Wherever the hero may wander, whatever he may do, he is ever in the presence of his own essence-for he has the perfected eye to see.