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.
Life is a guy trying to play a violin solo in public, while learning the music and his instrument at the same time.
Myth is much more important and true than history. History is just journalism and you know how reliable that is.
The schizophrenic is drowning in the same waters in which the mystic swims with delight. Edgar Cayce made the same observation in his readings.
You must have a room, or a certain hour or so a day, where you don’t know what was in the newspapers that morning, a place where you can simply experience and bring forth what you are and what you might be.
The hero, therefore, is the man or woman who has been able to battle past his personal and local historical limitations.
When you make the sacrifice in marriage, you’re sacrificing not to each other but to unity in a relationship.
God is a metaphor for that which transcends all levels of intellectual thought. It’s as simple as that.
The place to find is within yourself.
A bit of advice Given to a young Native American At the time of his initiation: As you go the way of life, You will see a great chasm. Jump. It is not as wide as you think.
Mythological symbols touch and exhilarate centers of life beyond the reach of vocabularies of reason and coercion.
Life is without meaning. You bring the meaning to it. The meaning of life is whatever you ascribe it to be. Being alive is the meaning.
And that Aha! that you get when you see an artwork that really hits you is, ‘I am that.’ I am the very radiance of energy that is talking to me through this painting.
Life is like arriving late for a movie, having to figure out what was going on without bothering everybody with a lot of questions, and then being unexpectedly called away before you find out how it ends.
When you are required to exhibit strength, it comes.
The less there is of you, the more you experience the sublime.
Suddenly you’re ripped into being alive. And life is pain, and life is suffering, and life is horror, but my god you’re alive and its spectacular.
The idea of Buddha consciousness is that all beings are Buddha beings, and your whole function in meditation and everything else is to find that Buddha consciousness within and live out of that, instead of the interests of the eyes and ears.
Awe is what moves us forward.
You become mature when you become the authority of your own life.