In marriage you are not sacrificing yourself to the other person. You are sacrificing yourself to the relationship.

It has always been the prime function of mythology and rite to supply the symbols that carry the human spirit forward.

A sound precipitates air, then fire, then water and earth- and that's how the world becomes.

Our demons are our own limitations, which shut us off from the realization of the ubiquity of the spirit . . . each of these demons is conquered in a vision quest.

We're not on our journey to save the world but to save ourselves. But in doing that you save the world. The influence of a vital person vitalizes.

So I think the Guru can be a delusion. But everything can be deluding. The thing central about the Guru in the West is that he represents an alien principle of the spirit, namely, that you don't follow your own path; you follow a given path. And that's totaly contrary to the Western Spirit! Our spirituality is of the individual quest, individual realization- authenticity in your life out of your own center. So you must take the message of the East, assimilate it to your own dimension and to your own thrust of life, and not get pulled off track.

The dance is the highest symbol of life itself.