Life will always be sorrowful. We can't change it, but we can change our attitude toward it.
Life has no meaning. Each of us has meaning and we bring it to life. It is a waste to be asking the question when you are the answer.
If you want to understand what's most important to a society, don't examine its art or literature, simply look at its biggest buildings.
It is by going down into the abyss that we recover the treasures of life. Where you stumble, there lies your treasure.
We have only to follow the thread of the hero path. And where we had thought to find an abomonation, we shall find a God.And where we had thought to slay another, we shall slay ourselves.And where we...
Wars and temper tantrums are the makeshifts of ignorance; regrets are illuminations come too late.
The big problem of any young person's life is to have models to suggest possibilities. Nietzsche says, 'Man is the sick animal.' Man is the animal that doesn't know what to do with itself. The mind ha...
How does the ordinary person come to the transcendent? For a start, I would say, study poetry. Learn how to read a poem. You need not have the experience to get the message, or at least some indicatio...
Follow your bliss and doors will open where there were no doors before.
Dream is the personalized myth, myth the depersonalized dream; both myth and dream are symbolic in the same general way of the dynamic of the psyche. But in the dream the forms are quirked by the pecu...
A good way to learn is to find a book that seems to be dealing with the problems that you're now dealing with. That will certainly give you some clues. in my own life I took my instruction from readin...
What we're learning in our schools is not the wisdom of life. We're learning technologies, we're getting information. There's a curious reluctance on the part of faculties to indicate the life values...
Myth is what we call other people's religion.
When you are on your path, and it is truly your path, doors will open for you where there were no doors for someone else.
We must be willing to let go of the life we planned so as to have the life that is waiting for us.
Love is a friendship set to music.
We're so engaged in doing things to achieve purposes of outer value that we forget the inner value, the rapture that is associated with being alive, is what it is all about.
People say that what we’re all seeking is a meaning for life. I don’t think that’s what we’re really seeking. I think that what we’re seeking is an experience of being alive, so that our life experien...
Mythology may, in a real sense, be defined as other people's religion. And religion may, in a sense, be understood as popular misunderstanding of mythology. (8)
Marshall McLuhan was right when he said that television has made a global village of the world—but he didn’t know the global village would be Beirut.