If you want to change the world, you have to change the metaphor.

What each must seek in his life never was on land or sea. It is something out of his own unique potentiality for experience, something that never has been and never could have been experienced by anyone else.

The perfect human being is uninteresting-the Buddha who leaves the world, you know. It is the imperfections of life that are lovable.

Behind all these manifestations is the one radiance, which shines through all things.

We are having experiences all the time which may on occasion render some sense of this, a little intuition of where your bliss is. Grab it. No one can tell you what it is going to be. You have to learn to recognize your own depth.

Midlife is when you reach the top of the ladder and find that it was against the wrong wall.

If you want the whole thing, the gods will give it to you. But you must be ready for it.