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

The hero, therefore, is the man or woman who has been able to battle past his personal and local historical limitations.

Behind all these manifestations is the one radiance, which shines through all things.

What is the cause, though, of the growth of an acorn? The oak that is to come! What is to happen in the future is then the cause of what is occurring now; and, at the same time, what occurred in the past is also the cause of what is happening now. In addition, a great number of things round about, on every side, are causing what is happening now. Everything, all the time, is causing everything else

If you see your path laid out in front of you - Step one, Step two, Step three - you only know one thing . . . it is not your path. Your path is created in the moment of action. If you can see it laid out in front of you, you can be sure it is someone else's path. That is why you see it so clearly.

We have to permit go with the everyday living we had prepared so as to have the lifetime that's watching for us

It is the function of art to carry us beyond speech to experience.