I think of compassion as the fundamental religious experience and, unless that is there, you have nothing.
You must have a place to which you can go in your heart, your mind, or your house, almost every day, where you do not owe anyone and where no one owes you – a place that simply allows for the blossoming of something new and promising.
The insecure way is the secure way.
What will they think of me? Must be put aside for bliss.
If you live with the myths in your mind, you will find yourself always in mythological situations. They cover everything that can happen to you. And that enables you to interpret the myth in relation to life, as well as life in relation to myth.
The seat of the soul is where the inner world and the outer world meet.
Behind all these manifestations is the one radiance, which shines through all things. The function of art is to reveal this radiance through the created object.
Money is congealed energy, and releasing it releases life’s possibilities.
Our true reality is in our identity and unity with all life.
Our life evokes our character. You find out more about yourself as you go on. That’s why it’s good to put yourself in situations that will evoke your higher nature rather than your lower.
One great thing about growing old is that nothing is going to lead to anything. Everything is of the moment.
Wherever the poetry of myth is interpreted as biography, history, or science, it is killed.
All religions are true but none are literal.
You enter the forest at 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 realize your potential.
We’re not on our journey to save the world but to save ourselves. But in doing that you save the world. The influence of a vital person vitalizes.
The experience of eternity right here and now is the function of life. Heaven is not the place to have the experience; here is the place to have the experience.
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.
The black moment is the moment when the real message of transformation is going to come. At the darkest moment comes the light.
Myths are the world’s dreams. They are archetypal dreams and deal with great human problems. Myths and dreams come from the same place. They come from realizations of some kind that then have to find expression in symbolic form.
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 of their subjects.