The big question is whether you are going to be able to say a hearty yes to your adventure.

Anyone who has had an experience of mystery knows that there is a dimension of the universe that is not that which is available to his senses. There is a pertinent saying in one of the Upanishads: When before the beauty of a sunset or of a mountain you pause and exclaim, ‘Ah,’ you are participating in divinity. Such a moment of participation involves a realization of the wonder and sheer beauty of existence. People living in the world of nature experience such moments every day. They live in the recognition of something there that is much greater than the human dimension.

It's only when a man tames his own demons that he becomes the king of himself if not of the world.

The perfect human being is uninteresting.

I think the person who takes a job in order to live - that is to say, for the money - has turned himself into a slave.

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.

Myth is much more important and true than history. History is just journalism and you know how reliable that is.