What I think is that a good life is one hero journey after another. Over and over again, you are called to the realm of adventure, you are called to new horizons. Each time, there is the same problem: do I dare? And then if you do dare, the dangers are there, and the help also, and the fulfillment or the fiasco. There's always the possibility of fiasco. But there's also the possibility of bliss.

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

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

Life is not a problem to be solved but a mystery to be lived. Follow the path that is no path, follow your bliss.

Heroism is a matter of integrity--beco ming more and more at each step ourselves.

Freud tells us to blame our parents for all the shortcomings of our life, Marx tells us to blame the upper class of our society. But the only one to blame is oneself.

The key to the Grail is compassion, 'suffering with,' feeling another's sorrow as if it were your own. The one who finds the dynamo of compassion is the one who's found the Grail.