It is by going down into the abyss that we recover the treasures of life. Where you stumble, there lies your treasure.

The purpose of the journey is compassion. When you have come past the pairs of opposites, you have reached compassion.

God is the experience of looking at a tree and saying, 'Ah!

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

When you no longer are compelled by desire and fear . . . when you have seen the radiance in eternity from all forms of time . . . when you follow your bliss . . . doors will open where you would not have thought there were doors . . . and the world will step in and help.

It's characteristic of democracy that majority rule is understood as being effective not only in politics but also in thinking. In thinking, of course, the majority is always wrong.