The function of the artist is the mythologization of the culture and the world. In the visual arts there were two men whose work handled mythological themes in a marvelous way: Paul Klee and Pablo Picasso.

We're all seeking...the rapture of being alive.

The key to the Grail is compassion, 'suffering with,' feeling another's sorrow as if it were your own. The one who finds the dynamo of compassion is the one who's found the Grail.

If the path before you is clear, you're probably on someone else's.

Anything you do has a still point. When you are in that still point, you can perform maximally.

Every religion, every mythology is true in this sense: It is true as metaphorical of the human and cosmic mystery.

The notion of this universe, its heavens, hells, and everything within it, as a great dream dreamed by a single being in which all the dream characters are dreaming too, has in India enchanted and shaped the entire civilization.