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

Your life is the fruit of your own doing. You have no one to blame but yourself... The problem is not to blame or explain but to handle the life that arises... If you say no to a single factor in your life, you have unraveled the whole thing... The demon that you swallow gives you its power, and the greater life's pain, the greater life's reply.

The first step to the knowledge of the wonder and mystery of life is the recognition of the monstrous nature of the earthly human realm as well as its glory, the realization that this is just how it is and that it cannot and will not be changed. Those who think they know how the universe could have been had they created it, without pain, without sorrow, without time, without death, are unfit for illumination.

For we have not even to risk the adventure alone, for the heros of all time have gone before us.

The Deadheads are doing the dance of life and this I would say is the answer to the atom bomb.

Find a place inside where there's joy, and the joy will burn out the pain.

The job of an educator is to teach students to see vitality in themselves