You've got to say yes to this miracle of life as it is, not on condition that it follow your rules.

The quest for fire occurred not because anyone knew what the practical uses for fire would be, but because it was fascinating.

Myth is what we call other people's religion.

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.

For if anything is capable of making a poet of a literary man, it is my hometown love of the human, the living and ordinary.

Our demons are our own limitations, which shut us off from the realization of the ubiquity of the spirit . . . each of these demons is conquered in a vision quest.

When you follow your bliss...doors will open where you would not have thought there would be doors, and where there wouldn't be a door for anyone else.