Every moment is utterly unique and will not be continued in eternity. This fact gives life its poignancy and should concentrate your attention on what you are experiencing now...that source of eternal energy is here, in you, now.

Your life is the fruit of your own doing. You have no one to blame but yourself.

Without passion, men are not willing to pay any price or bear any burden to set the captives free.

There seem to be only two kinds of people: Those who think that metaphors are facts, and those who know that they are not facts. Those who know they are not facts are what we call "atheists," and those who think they are facts are "religious." Which group really gets the message?

I think it's important to live life with a knowledge of its mystery, and of your own mystery.

Gods suppressed become devils, and often it is these devils whom we first encounter when we turn inward.

You must have a place to which you can go in your heart, your mind, or your house, almost every day, where you do not owe anyone and where no one owes you - a place that simply allows for the blossoming of something new and promising.