There's always the possibility of a fiasco. But there's also the possibility of bliss.

Mythological symbols touch and exhilarate centers of life beyond the reach of vocabularies of reason and coercion.

Men sometimes confess they love war because it puts them in touch with the experience of being alive. In going to the office every day, you don't get that experience, but suddenly in war, you are ripped back into being alive. Life is pain; life is suffering; and life is horror - but, by God, you are alive.

Apocalypse does not point to a fiery Armageddon but to the fact that our ignorance and our complacency are coming to an end. The exclusivism of there being only one way in which we can be saved, the idea that there is a single religious group that is in sole possession of the truth—that is the world as we know it that must pass away. What is the kingdom? It lies in our realization of the ubiquity of the divine presence in our neighbors, in our enemies, in all of us.

The fates lead him who will; him who won't they drag.

If you have a sacred place and use it, take advantage of it, something will happen.

If the path before you is clear, you're probably on someone else's.