Man should not be in the service of society, society should be in the service of man. When man is in the service of society, you have a monster state, and that's what is threatening the world at this minute.

I don't believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive.

‎"Make your god transparent to the transcendent, and it doesn't matter what his name is."

It takes courage to do what you want. Other people have a lot of plans for you... Follow your bliss.

Heroism is a matter of integrity--beco ming more and more at each step ourselves.

If you will think of ourselves as coming out of the earth, rather than having been thrown in here from somewhere else, you see that we are the earth, we are the consciousness of the earth. These are the eyes of the Earth. And this is the voice of the earth.

Myths are stories for our search through the ages for truth, for meaning, for significance. We all need to tell our story and to understand our story. We all need to understand death and to cope with death, and we all need help in our passages from birth to live and then to death. We need for life to signify, to touch the eternal, to understand the mysterious, to find out who we are.