When you go through life ... it all seems accidental at the time it is happening. Then when you get on in your 60s or 70s and look back, your life looks like a well-planned novel with a coherent theme ... Incidents that seemed accidental, pure chance, turn out to be major elements in the structuring of this novel. Schopenhauer says, 'Who wrote this novel? You did.'

The dance is the highest symbol of life itself.

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

Breaking out is following your bliss pattern, quitting the old place, starting your hero journey, following your bliss. You throw off yesterday as the snake sheds its skin.

What we are really living for is the experience of life, both the pain and the pleasure.

Passion will move men beyond themselves, beyond their shortcomings, beyond their failures.

When you realize that eternity is right here now, that it is within your possibility to experience the eternity of your own truth and being, then you grasp the following: That which you are was never born and will never die. . . . (90)