Money is congealed energy, and releasing it releases life's possibilities.

The happy ending of the fairy tale, the myth, and the divine comedy of the soul, is to be read, not as a contradiction, but as a transcendence of the universal tragedy of man. The objective world remains what it was, but, because of a shift of emphasis within the subject, is beheld as though transformed. Where formerly life and death contended, now enduring being is made manifest-as indifferent to the accidents of time as water boiling in a pot is to the destiny of a bubble, or as the cosmos to the appearance and disappearance of a galaxy of stars.

All life stinks and you must embrace that with compassion.

The adventure is always and everywhere a passage beyond the veil of the known into the unknown; the powers that watch at the boundary are dangerous; to deal with them is risky; yet for anyone with competence and courage the danger fades.

The creative act is not hanging on, but yielding to a new creative movement. Awe is what moves us forward.

When you make the sacrifice in marriage, you're sacrificing not to each other but to unity in a relationship.

As a white candle / In a holy place, / So is the beauty / Of an aged face