When I was in India I met and conversed briefly with Shri Atmananda Guru of Trivandrum, and the question he gave me to ponder was this: 'Where are you between two thoughts?

Life is without meaning. You bring the meaning to it. The meaning of life is whatever you ascribe it to be. Being alive is the meaning.

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

When you are in accord with nature, nature will yield its bounty. This is something that is coming up in our own consciousness now...recognizi ng that by violating the environment in which we are living, we are really cutting off the energy and source of our own living. And it’s this sense of accord, so that living properly in relation to what has to be done in this world one fosters the vitality of the environment.

There's always the possibility of a fiasco. But there's also the possibility of bliss.

If you're going to have a story, have a big story, or none at all.

Each of us has capacities. The real trick is knowing the machinery of the boat in which you are crossing the channel.