The night of December 25, to which date the Nativity of Christ was ultimately assigned, was exactly that of the birth of the Persian savior Mithra, who, as an incarnation of eternal light, was born the night of the winter solstice (then dated December 25) at midnight, the instant of the turn of the year from increasing darkness to light.

It is by going down into the abyss that we recover the treasures of life. Where you stumble, there lies your treasure.

Poets are simply those who have made a profession and a lifestyle of being in touch with their bliss.

You become mature when you become the authority of your own life.

We have to permit go with the everyday living we had prepared so as to have the lifetime that's watching for us

There are something like 18 billion cells in the brain alone. There are no two brains alike; there are no two hands alike; there are no two human beings alike. You can take your instructions and your guidance from others, but you must find your own path.

The senses are a kind of reason. Taste, touch and smell, hearing and seeing, are not merely a means to sensation, enjoyable or otherwise, but they are also a means to knowledge - and are, indeed, your only actual means to knowledge.