There is a condescension on the part of the infinite to the mind of man. That is what looks like God.

Marriage is not a love affair. A love affair has to do with immediate personal satisfaction. Marriage is an ordeal; it means yielding, time and again. That's why it's a sacrament; You give up your personal simplicity to participate in a relationship. And when you're giving, you're not giving to the other person; you're giving to the relationship.

The passage of the mythological hero may be over ground, incidentally; fundamentally it is inward--into depths where obscure resistances are overcome, and long lost, forgotten powers are revivified, to be made available for the transfiguration of the world.

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.

So that's what destiny is: simply the fulfillment of the potentialites of the energies in your own system.

God is a metaphor for that which transcends all levels of intellectual thought. It's as simple as that.

Let the world be as it is and learn to rock with the waves.