Once you know the difference between right and wrong, you have lots fewer decisions to make.

I think of compassion as the fundamental religious experience and, unless that is there, you have nothing.

The ultimate aim of the quest must be neither release nor ecstasy for oneself, but the wisdom and the power to serve others.

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

The purpose of the journey is compassion. When you have come past the pairs of opposites, you have reached compassion.

The function of artists is "the mythologization of the world."

The ego is as you think of yourself. You in relation to all the commitments of your life, as you understand them. The self is the whole range of possibilities that you've never even thought of. And you're stuck with you're past when you're stuck with the ego. Because if all you know about yourself is what you found out about yourself, well, that already happened. The self is a whole field of potentialities to come through.