There have been systems of religion where the mother is the prime parent, the source, and she's really a more immediate parent than the father, because one is born from the mother...so that the image of the woman is the image of the world.

The principle of compassion is that which converts disillusionment into a participatory companionship. This is the basic love, the charity, that turns a critic into a living human being who has something to give to - as well as to demand of - the world.

Our true reality is in our identity and unity with all life.

There's always the possibility of a fiasco. But there's also the possibility of bliss.

What we're learning in our schools is not the wisdom of life. We're learning technologies, we're getting information. There's a curious reluctance on the part of faculties to indicate the life values of their subjects.

Questing... is not an ego trip; it is an adventure to bring into fulfillment your gift to the world, which is yourself.

The myth is the public dream and the dream is the private myth.