The black moment is the moment when the real message of transformation is going to come. At the darkest moment comes the light.

As a white candle / In a holy place, / So is the beauty / Of an aged face

The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek. Fear of the unknown is our greatest fear. Many of us would enter a tiger's lair before we would enter a dark cave. While caution is a useful instinct, we lose many opportunities and much of the adventure of life if we fail to support the curious explorer within us.

The problem of making the inner meet the outer of today is, of course, the function of the artist.

I am Shiva-this is the great meditation of the yogis in the Himalayas...Hea ven and hell are within us, and all the gods are within us. This is the great realization of the Upanishads of India in the ninth century B.C. All the gods, all the heavens, all the worlds, are within us. They are magnified dreams, and dreams are manifestations in image form of the energies of the body in conflict with each other.

Both the artist and the lover know that perfection is not loveable. It is the clumsiness of a fault that makes a person lovable.

I don't need faith. I have experience.