When you no longer are compelled by desire and fear . . . when you have seen the radiance in eternity from all forms of time . . . when you follow your bliss . . . doors will open where you would not have thought there were doors . . . and the world will step in and help.

The old skin has to be shed before the new one can come.

One way or another, we all have to find what best fosters the flowering of our humanity in this contemporary life, and dedicate ourselves to that.

A one sentence definition of mythology? Mythology is what we call someone else's religion.

When we talk about settling the world's problems, we're barking up the wrong tree. The world is perfect. It's a mess. It has always been a mess. We're not going to change it. Our job is to straighten out our own lives.

It's only when a man tames his own demons that he becomes the king of himself if not of the world.

The psychotic drowns in the same waters in which the mystic swims with delight.