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

...suddenly you hit on something that the student really responds to, you can see the eyes open and the complexion change. The life possibility has opened there. All you can say to yourself is, "I hope this child hangs on to that."

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

Dream is the personalized myth, myth the depersonalized dream.

We must be willing to get rid of the life we've planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us. The old skin has to be shed before the new one can come. -

This is an important point about symbols: they do not refer to historical events; they refer through historical events to spiritual or psychological principles and powers that are of yesterday, today, and tomorrow, and that are everywhere.

We're so engaged in doing things to achieve purposes of outer value that we forget the inner value, the rapture that is associated with being alive, is what it is all about.