When before the beauty of a sunset or a mountain, you pause and exclaim, 'Ah,' you are participating in divinity.

It's only when a man tames his own demons that he becomes the king of himself if not of the world.

Passion will move men beyond themselves, beyond their shortcomings, beyond their failures.

Follow your bliss. The heroic life is living the individual adventure. There is no security in following the call to adventure. Nothing is exciting if you know what the outcome is going to be.

When you are in accord with nature, nature will yield its bounty. This is something that is coming up in our own consciousness now...recognizi ng that by violating the environment in which we are living, we are really cutting off the energy and source of our own living. And it’s this sense of accord, so that living properly in relation to what has to be done in this world one fosters the vitality of the environment.

The dark night of the soul comes just before revelation.

Wherever the poetry of myth is interpreted as biography, history, or science, it is killed.