The fall [of your soul] from perfection into duality...was naturally followed by the discovery of the duality of good and evil...This is the Biblical version of a myth known to many lands.

Men sometimes confess they love war because it puts them in touch with the experience of being alive. In going to the office every day, you don't get that experience, but suddenly in war, you are ripped back into being alive. Life is pain; life is suffering; and life is horror - but, by God, you are alive.

When people get married because they think it's a long-time love affair, they'll be divorced very soon, because all love affairs end in disappointment. But marriage is a recognition of a spiritual identity.

If you are falling....dive.

Behind all these manifestations is the one radiance, which shines through all things. The function of art is to reveal this radiance through the created object.

The perfect human being is uninteresting.

Find a place inside where there's joy, and the joy will burn out the pain.