The creative act is not hanging on, but yielding to a new creative movement. Awe is what moves us forward.

Without passion, men are not willing to pay any price or bear any burden to set the captives free.

Society has provided [children] no rituals by which they become members of the tribe, of the community. All children need to be twice born, to learn to function rationally in the present world, leaving childhood behind.

The function of the society is to cultivate the individual. It is not the function of the individual to support society.

Whether you call someone a hero or a monster is all relative to where the focus of your consciousness may be.

If you go to a master to study and learn the techniques, you diligently follow all the instructions the master puts upon you. But then comes the time for using the rules in your own way and not being bound by them....You can actually forget the rules because they have been assimilated. You are an artist. Your own innocence now is of one who has become an artist, who has been, as it were, transmuted.... You can't have creativity unless you leave behind the bounded, the fixed, all the rules.

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