We are all born as animals and live the life that animals live: we sleep, eat, reproduce, and fight. There is, however, another order of living, which the animals do not know, that of awe before the mystery of being ... that can be the root and branch of the spiritual sense of one’s days. That is the birth - the Virgin Birth - in the heart of a properly human, spiritual life.

You can't have creativity unless you leave behind the bounded, the fixed, all the rules

I always feel uncomfortable when people speak about ordinary mortals because I've never met an ordinary man, woman or child.

Sit in a room and read--and read and read. And read the right books by the right people. Your mind is brought onto that level, and you have a nice, mild, slow-burning rapture all the time.

The fall [of your soul] from perfection into duality...was naturally followed by the discovery of the duality of good and evil...This is the Biblical version of a myth known to many lands.

Survival is the second law of life. The first is that we are all one.

No one in the world was ever you before, with your particular gifts and abilities and possibilities.