You have to have a feeling for where you are. You've got only one life to live and you don't have to live it for six people. Pay attention to it.

When you look at that nature world it becomes an icon, it becomes a holy picture that speaks of the origins of the world. Almost every mythology sees the origins of life coming out of water. And, curiously, that's true. It's amusing that the origin of life out of water is in myths and then again, finally, in science, we find the same thing. It's exactly so.

The best things cannot be told, the second best are misunderstood. After that comes civilized conversation; after that, mass indoctrination; after that, intercultural exchange.

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

Where there is a way or path, it is someone else's. Each of us has to find his own way.

Eternity is not future or past. Eternity is a dimension of now.

When you no longer are compelled by desire and fear . . . when you have seen the radiance in eternity from all forms of time . . . when you follow your bliss . . . doors will open where you would not have thought there were doors . . . and the world will step in and help.