The adventure that the hero is ready for is the one he gets.

If we fix on the old, we get stuck.

In choosing your god, you choose your way of looking at the universe. There are plenty of Gods. Choose yours.

God is within you. You yourself are your creator. If you find that place in yourself from which you brought this thing about, you will be able to live with it and affirm it, perhaps even enjoy it, as your life.

I always feel uncomfortable when people speak about ordinary mortals because I've never met an ordinary man, woman or child.

Life lives on life. This is the sense of the symbol of the Ouroboros, the serpent biting its tail. Everything that lives lives on the death of something else. Your own body will be food for something else. Anyone who denies this, anyone who holds back, is out of order. Death is an act of giving.

Instead of clearing his own heart the zealot tries to clear the world.