If there were already a path, it would have to be someone else's; the whole point is to find your own way.

If you can see your path clearly in front of you, it's probably someone else's.

The latest incarnation of Oedipus, the continued romance of Beauty and the Beast, stand this afternoon on the corner of Forty-second Street and Fifth Avenue, waiting for the traffic light to change.

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?

He who thinks he knows, doesn't know. He who knows that he doesn't know, knows.

This is an essential experience of any mystical realization. You die to your flesh and are born into your spirit. You identify yourself with the consciousness and life of which your body is but the vehicle. You die to the vehicle and become identified in your consciousness with that of which the vehicle is but the carrier. That is the God.

Computers are like Old Testament gods; lots of rules and no mercy.