The hero, therefore, is the man or woman who has been able to battle past his personal and local historical limitations.

Follow your bliss and don't be afraid, and door will open where you didn't know they were going to be.

God is a metaphor for that which transcends all levels of intellectual thought. It's as simple as that.

How do you find the divine power in yourself? The word enthusiasm means 'filled with a god,' so what makes you enthusiastic? Follow it. So I have a little word: follow your bliss. The bliss is the message of God to yourself. That's where your life is.

The function of (heroic) symbols is to give you a sense of Aha! Yes, I know what it is, it's myself.

In the Orient the ultimate divine mystery is sought beyond all human categories of thought and feeling, beyond names and forms, and absolutely beyond any such concept as of a merciful or wrathful personality, chooser of one people over another, comforter of folk who pray, and destroyer of those who do not. Such anthropomorphic attributions of human sentiments and thoughts to a mystery beyond thought is-from the point of view of Indian thought-a style of religion for children.

At such moments, you realize that you and the other are, in fact, one. It's a big realization. Survival is the second law of life. The first is that we are all one.