He must put aside his pride, his virtue, beauty and life and bow or submit to the absolutely intolerable.

Find a place inside where there's joy, and the joy will burn out the pain.

It's a shame to waste [the uniqueness that is you], by doing what someone else has done.

Oh my God, does art engender humanity? It awakens your humanity. But humanity has nothing to do with political theory. Political theory is in the interests of one group of humanity, or one ideal for humanity. But humanity-my heavens, that's what proper art renders. We have a paradox. Going into the deepest aspects of inner space connects you with something that is the most vital for the outer realm.

For we have not even to risk the adventure alone, for the heros of all time have gone before us.

The Garden is a metaphor for the following: our minds, and our thinking in terms of pairs of opposites--man and woman, good and evil--are as holy as that of a god. (50)

I don't believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive.