We are kept out of the Garden by our own fear and desire in relation to what we think to be the goods of our life.

The quest for fire occurred not because anyone knew what the practical uses for fire would be, but because it was fascinating.

For those in whom a local mythology still works, there is an experience both of accord with the social order, and of harmony with the universe. For those, however, in whom the authorized signs no longer work-or, if working, produce deviant effects-there follows inevitably a sense both of dissociation from the local social nexus and of quest, within and without, for life, which the brain will take to be for 'meaning'.

Life has no meaning. Each of us has meaning and we bring it to life. It is a waste to be asking the question when you are the answer.

Sin always finds it's root in our own selfish desires and self-gratification.

I should have said, 'Follow your blisters.'

There is no security in following the call to adventure.