You are the Hero of your own Story.

It's a shame to waste [the uniqueness that is you], by doing what someone else has done.

Their task [creative artists], therefore, is to communicate directly from one inward world to another, in such a way that an actual shock of experience will have been rendered: not a mere statement for the information or persuasion of a brain, but an effective communication across the void of space and time from one center of consciousness to another.

We keep thinking of deity as a kind of fact, somewhere; God as a fact. God is simply our own notion of something that is symbolic of transcendence and mystery. The mystery is what’s important.

Any disaster you can survive is an improvement in your character, your stature, and your life

Society has provided [children] no rituals by which they become members of the tribe, of the community. All children need to be twice born, to learn to function rationally in the present world, leaving childhood behind.

How to get rid of ego as dictator and turn it into messenger and servant and scout, to be in your service, is the trick.