There is what I would call the hero journey, the night sea journey, the hero quest, where the individual is going to bring forth in his life something that was never beheld before.

You've got to say yes to this miracle of life as it is, not on condition that it follow your rules.

God is a metaphor for that which transcends all levels of intellectual thought. It's as simple as that.

Any god who can invent hell is no candidate for the Salvation Army

You know the rule: If you are falling, dive. Do the thing that has to be done.

The ego is as you think of yourself. You in relation to all the commitments of your life, as you understand them. The self is the whole range of possibilities that you've never even thought of. And you're stuck with you're past when you're stuck with the ego. Because if all you know about yourself is what you found out about yourself, well, that already happened. The self is a whole field of potentialities to come through.

Each of us has capacities. The real trick is knowing the machinery of the boat in which you are crossing the channel.