Anything you do has a still point. When you are in that still point, you can perform maximally.

The ultimate aim of the quest must be neither release nor ecstasy for oneself, but the wisdom and the power to serve others.

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.

I don’t think there is any such thing as an ordinary mortal. Everybody has his own possibility of rapture in the experience of life. All he has to do is recognize it and then cultivate it and get going with it. I always feel uncomfortable when people speak about ordinary mortals because I’ve never met an ordinary man, woman, or child.

First you must find your trajectory, and then comes the social coordination.

You know, when real trouble comes your humanity is awakened. The fundamental human experience is that of compassion.

The call to adventure signifies that destiny has summoned the hero.