I think of compassion as the fundamental religious experience and, unless that is there, you have nothing.

The dance is the highest symbol of life itself.

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

Man was not breathed into the earth. Man came out of the earth.

The mind of man, cleansed of secondary and merely temporal concerns, beholds with the radiance of a cleansed mirror a reflection of the rational mind of God.

The two greatest works of war mythology in the west ... are the Iliad and the Old Testament... When we turn from the Iliad and Athens to Jerusalem and the Old Testament we find a single-minded single deity with his sympathies forever on one side. And the enemy, accordingly, no matter who it may be, is handled... pretty much as though he were subhuman: not a "Thou" but an "It."

So that's what destiny is: simply the fulfillment of the potentialites of the energies in your own system.