I don’t think people are really seeking the meaning of Life. I think we’re seeking an experience of being alive…we want to feel the rapture of being alive

There is no security in following the call to adventure.

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 sin of inadvertence, not being alert, not quite awake, is the sin of missing the moment of life-live with unremitting alertness.

I don't believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive.

The myth does not point to a fact; the myth points beyond facts to something that informs the fact

Both the artist and the lover know that perfection is not loveable. It is the clumsiness of a fault that makes a person lovable.