Opportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves come when life seems most challenging.

The old skin has to be shed before the new one can come.

Life is a guy trying to play a violin solo in public, while learning the music and his instrument at the same time.

The function of ritual, as I understand it, is to give form to human life, not in the way of a mere surface arrangement, but in depth.

What is required is the finding of that Immovable Point within one's self, which is not shaken by any of those tempests which the Buddhists call 'the eight karmic winds': 1-fear of pain, 2-desire for pleasure; 3-fear of loss; 4-desire for gain; 5-fear of blame, 6-desire for praise; 7-fear of disgrace; [and] 8-desire for fame.

When you realize that eternity is right here now, that it is within your possibility to experience the eternity of your own truth and being, then you grasp the following: That which you are was never born and will never die. . . . (90)

Art is the clothing of a revelation