Not all who hesitate are lost. The psyche has many secrets in reserve. And these are not disclosed unless required.

Man was not breathed into the earth. Man came out of the earth.

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

I am Shiva-this is the great meditation of the yogis in the Himalayas...Hea ven and hell are within us, and all the gods are within us. This is the great realization of the Upanishads of India in the ninth century B.C. All the gods, all the heavens, all the worlds, are within us. They are magnified dreams, and dreams are manifestations in image form of the energies of the body in conflict with each other.

Every people is a chosen people in its own mind. And it is rather amusing that their name for themselves usually means mankind.

When we quit thinking primarily about ourselves and our own self-preservation, we undergo a truly heroic transformation of consciousness.

The problem in our society and in our schools is to inclulcate, without overdoing it, the notion of education, as in the Latin educere--to lead, to bring out what is in someone rather than merely to indoctrinate him/her from the outside. (89)