"You become mature when you become the authority of your own life."

"Where you stumble and fall, there you will find gold."

"Myth is much more important and true than history. History is just journalism and you know how reliable that is."

"Your sacred space is where you can find yourself over and over again."

"Sit in a room and read--and read and read. And read the right books by the right people. Your mind is brought onto that level, and you have a nice, mild, slow-burning rapture all the time."

"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 experiences on the purely physical plane will have resonances with our own innermost being and reality, so that we actually feel the rapture of being alive."

"If you do follow your bliss you put yourself on a kind of track that has been there all the while, waiting for you, and the life that you ought to be living is the one you are living. Follow your bliss and don't be afraid, and doors will open where you didn't know they were going to be."

"The demon that you can swallow gives you its power, and the greater life’s pain, the greater life’s reply."

"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."

"The first step to the knowledge of the wonder and mystery of life is the recognition of the monstrous nature of the earthly human realm as well as its glory, the realization that this is just how it is and that it cannot and will not be changed. Those who think they know how the universe could have been had they created it, without pain, without sorrow, without time, without death, are unfit for illumination."

"You enter the forestat the darkest point,where there is no path.Where there is a way or path,it is someone else's path.You are not on your own path.If you follow someone else's way,you are not going to realizeyour potential."

"The goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with Nature."

"If the path before you is clear, you're probably on someone else's."

"Follow your bliss and the universe will open doors for you where there were only walls."

"You become mature when you become the authority of your own life."

"Where you stumble and fall, there you will find gold."

"Myth is much more important and true than history. History is just journalism and you know how reliable that is."

"Your sacred space is where you can find yourself over and over again."

"Sit in a room and read--and read and read. And read the right books by the right people. Your mind is brought onto that level, and you have a nice, mild, slow-burning rapture all the time."

"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 experiences on the purely physical plane will have resonances with our own innermost being and reality, so that we actually feel the rapture of being alive."

"If you do follow your bliss you put yourself on a kind of track that has been there all the while, waiting for you, and the life that you ought to be living is the one you are living. Follow your bliss and don't be afraid, and doors will open where you didn't know they were going to be."

"The demon that you can swallow gives you its power, and the greater life’s pain, the greater life’s reply."