Art is the clothing of a revelation

Freud tells us to blame our parents for all the shortcomings of our life, Marx tells us to blame the upper class of our society. But the only one to blame is oneself.

The essence of oneself and the essence of the world: these two are one. [ The aim is not to see, but to realize that one is, that essence; then one is free to wander as that essence in the world.] Hence separateness, withdrawal, is no longer necessary. Wherever the hero may wander, whatever he may do, he is ever in the presence of his own essence-for he has the perfected eye to see.

The importance of the End of time is as ... a psychological event ... When you have seen the radiance of eternity through all the forms of time ... and it is the function of art to make that visible to you ... then you have really have ended life in the world as it is lived by those who only think only in the historical, concretizing terms. This is the function of mythology.

He must put aside his pride, his virtue, beauty and life and bow or submit to the absolutely intolerable.

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

The experience of eternity right here and now is the function of life. Heaven is not the place to have the experience; here is the place to have the experience.