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

[Comedies], in the ancient world, were regarded as of a higher rank than tragedy, of a deeper truth, of a more difficult realization, of a sounder structure, and of a revelation more complete. The happy ending of the fairy tale, the myth, and the divine comedy of the soul, is to be read, not as a contradiction, but as a transcendence of the universal tragedy of man. ...Tragedy is the shattering of the forms and of our attachment to the forms...

When I was in India I met and conversed briefly with Shri Atmananda Guru of Trivandrum, and the question he gave me to ponder was this: 'Where are you between two thoughts?

God is the experience of looking at a tree and saying, 'Ah!

Gods suppressed become devils, and often it is these devils whom we first encounter when we turn inward.

You know, when real trouble comes your humanity is awakened. The fundamental human experience is that of compassion.

It is within you that the divine lives.