If you follow your bliss you will find a path laid out before you that has been waiting for you all along and you will begin to live the life you ought to be living.

If you want to know what a given society believes in, look at what its largest buildings are devoted to.

Nothing is exciting if you know what the outcome is going to be.

This is an essential experience of any mystical realization. You die to your flesh and are born into your spirit. You identify yourself with the consciousness and life of which your body is but the vehicle. You die to the vehicle and become identified in your consciousness with that of which the vehicle is but the carrier. That is the God.

If we fix on the old, we get stuck.

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)

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.