The sacred is discovered in what moves and touches us, in what makes us tremble.

We learn to fly not by being fearless, but by the daily practice of courage.

I've spent my life cultivating knowledge of myself. But the more I know myself, the more utterly mysterious I become.

In the degree that we remember and retell our stories and create new ones we become the authors, the authorities, of our own lives.

The root of humanly caused evil is not man's animal nature, not territorial aggression, or innate selfishness, but our need to gain self-esteem, deny our mortality, and achieve a heroic self-image. Our desire for the best is the cause of the worst.

I think we're inevitably going to be depressed when we focus the major part of our energy and attention on something that doesn't give us meaning, only material things.

Each day befriend a single fear, and the miscellaneous terrors of being human will never join together to form such a morass of vague anxiety that it rules your life from the shadows of the unconscious. We learn to fly not by being fearless, but by the daily practice of courage.