The perfect human being is uninteresting.

You may have success in life, but then just think of it - what kind of life was it? What good was it - you've never done the thing you wanted to do in all your life. I always tell my students, go where your body and soul want to go. When you have the feeling, then stay with it, and don't let anyone throw you off.

Perhaps some of us have to go through dark and devious ways before we can find the river of peace or the highroad to the soul's destination.

We keep thinking of deity as a kind of fact, somewhere; God as a fact. God is simply our own notion of something that is symbolic of transcendence and mystery. The mystery is what’s important.

Every religion, every mythology is true in this sense: It is true as metaphorical of the human and cosmic mystery.

I think what we lack isn't science, but poetry that reveals what the heart is ready to recognize

Your adventure has to be coming out of your own interior. If you are ready for it then doors will open where there were no doors before, and where there would not be doors for anyone else. And you must have courage. It's the call to adventure, which means there is no security, no rules.