Our demons are our own limitations, which shut us off from the realization of the ubiquity of the spirit . . . each of these demons is conquered in a vision quest.

Follow your bliss and don't be afraid, and door will open where you didn't know they were going to be.

The Greeks, it will be recalled, regarded Eros, the god of love, as the eldest of the gods; but also as the youngest, born fresh and dewy-eyed in every living heart.

It's characteristic of democracy that majority rule is understood as being effective not only in politics but also in thinking. In thinking, of course, the majority is always wrong.

You can't have creativity unless you leave behind the bounded, the fixed, all the rules

I think what we lack isn't science, but poetry that reveals what the heart is ready to recognize

The departure from the world is regarded not as a fault, but as the first step into that noble path at the remotest turn of which illumination is to be won.