The ultimate dreamer is Vishnu floating on the cosmic Milky Ocean, couched upon the coils of the abyssal serpent Ananta, the meaning of whose name is Unending. In the foreground stand the five Pandava brothers, heroes of the epic Mahabharata, with Draupadi, their wife: allegorically, she is the mind and they are the five senses.

A myth doesn't have to be real to be true.

It takes courage to do what you want. Other people have a lot of plans for you... Follow your bliss.

......the interesting thing was that the Roman Catholic monks and the Buddhist monks had no trouble understanding each other. Each of them was seeking the same experience and knew that the experience was incommunicable. The communication is only an effort to bring the hearer to the edge of the abyss; it is a signpost, not the thing itself. But the secular clergy reads the communication and gets stuck with the letter, and that's where you have the conflict.

One looks, looks long, and the world comes in.

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.

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