You become mature when you become the authority of your own life.
When you realize that eternity is right here now, that it is within your possibility to experience the eternity of your own truth and being, then you grasp the following: That which you are was never...
The demon that you can swallow gives you its power, and the greater life’s pain, the greater life’s reply.
Every religion is true one way or another. It is true when understood metaphorically. But when it gets stuck in its own metaphors, interpreting them as facts, then you are in trouble.
Nietzsche was the one who did the job for me. At a certain moment in his life,the idea came to him of what he called 'the love of your fate.' Whatever your fate is, whatever the hell happens, you say,...
If a being from another world were to ask you, How can I learn what it's like to be human? a good answer would be, Study mythology.
You have to learn to recognize your own depths.
Participate joyfully in the sorrows of the world. We cannot cure the world of sorrows, but we can choose to live in joy.
One way or another, we all have to find what best fosters the flowering of our humanity in this contemporary life, and dedicate ourselves to that.
Love is a friendship set to music.
He must put aside his pride, his virtue, beauty and life and bow or submit to the absolutely intolerable.
A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.
I don't have to have faith, I have experience.
[T]he experience of mystery comes not from expecting it but through yielding all your programs, because your programs are based on fear and desire. Drop them and the radiance comes. (16)
The job of an educator is to teach students to see vitality in themselves
Myth is what we call other people's religion.
Your sacred space is where you can find yourself over and over again.
We're in a freefall into future. We don't know where we're going. Things are changing so fast, and always when you're going through a long tunnel, anxiety comes along. And all you have to do to transf...
They thought that it would be a disgrace to go forth as a group. Each entered the forest at a point that he himself had chosen, where it was darkest and there was no path. If there is a path it is som...
All religions are true but none are literal.