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.

The Deadheads are doing the dance of life and this I would say is the answer to the atom bomb.

In choosing your god, you choose your way of looking at the universe. There are plenty of Gods. Choose yours.

Participate joyfully in the sorrows of life

A hero is not a champion of things become, but of things becoming; the dragon to be slain by him is precisely the monster of the status quo.

You must have a room, or a certain hour or so a day, where you don't know what was in the newspapers that morning a place where you can simply experience and bring forth what you are and what you might be.

It is not society which is to guide and save the creative hero, but precisely the reverse.