If you want to see what a society really believes in, look at what the biggest buildings on the horizon are dedicated to.

[T]he experience of mystery comes not from expecting it but through yielding all your programs, because your programs are based on fear and desire. Drop them and the radiance comes. (16)

Any disaster you can survive is an improvement in your character, your stature, and your life

Each of us has capacities. The real trick is knowing the machinery of the boat in which you are crossing the channel.

[Comedies], in the ancient world, were regarded as of a higher rank than tragedy, of a deeper truth, of a more difficult realization, of a sounder structure, and of a revelation more complete. 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. ...Tragedy is the shattering of the forms and of our attachment to the forms...

The Fates guide those who will and drag those who won't!

Poets are simply those who have made a profession and a lifestyle of being in touch with their bliss.