We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us.

The night of December 25, to which date the Nativity of Christ was ultimately assigned, was exactly that of the birth of the Persian savior Mithra, who, as an incarnation of eternal light, was born the night of the winter solstice (then dated December 25) at midnight, the instant of the turn of the year from increasing darkness to light.

If you have a sacred place and use it, take advantage of it, something will happen.

The demon that you can swallow gives you it’s power, and the greater life’s pain, the greater life’s reply.

When you are required to exhibit strength, it comes.

There's always the possibility of a fiasco. But there's also the possibility of bliss.

You must have a room, or a certain hour or so a day, where you don’t know what was in the newspapers that morning, you don’t know who your friends are, you don’t know what you owe anybody, you don’t know what anybody owes to you. This is a place where you can simply experience and bring forth what you are and what you might be. This is the place of creative incubation. At first you may find that nothing happens there. But if you have a sacred place and use it, something eventually will happen.