To be on a quest is nothing more or less than to become an asker of questions.

The sense of gratitude produces true spiritual alchemy, makes us magnanimous - large souled.

To be on a quest is nothing more or less than to become an asker of questions.

If we come from good families where we have been supported well, there is a disillusionment we have to undergo in terms of the culture's values. We have to get beyond our cultural mythology to find out who we are.

The Greeks invented the idea of nemesis to show how any single virtue, stubbornly maintained gradually changes into a destructive vice. Our success, our industry, our habit of work have produced our economic nemesis. Work made modern men great, but now threatens to usurp our souls, to inundate the earth in things and trash, to destroy our capacity to love and wonder.

Throughout my life, I've had different metaphors for freedom. At one time, it was skin diving. In the ocean you feel weightless; you escape from gravity.

You don't go through a deep personal transformation without some kind of dark night of the soul.