If a person does not listen to the demands of their own spiritual and heart life and insists on a certain program, you're going to have a schizophrenic crackup. The person has put themselves off center. They have aligned themselves with a programmatic life and it's not the one the body is interested in at all.

You enter the forest at the darkest point, where there is no path. Where there is a way or path, it is someone else's path. You are not on your own path. If you follow someone else's way, you are not going to realize your potential.

I think of compassion as the fundamental religious experience and, unless that is there, you have nothing.

The Garden is a metaphor for the following: our minds, and our thinking in terms of pairs of opposites--man and woman, good and evil--are as holy as that of a god. (50)

For we have not even to risk the adventure alone, for the heros of all time have gone before us.

People forget facts, but they remember stories.

Life will always be sorrowful. We can't change it, but we can change our attitude toward it.