Without passion, men are not willing to pay any price or bear any burden to set the captives free.
Follow your bliss and don’t be afraid, and door will open where you didn’t know they were going to be.
A dream is your creative vision for your life in the future. A goal is what specifically you intend to make happen. Dreams and goals should be just out of your present reach but not out of sight. Dreams and goals are coming attractions in your life.
One looks, looks long, and the world comes in.
Great Brahma from his mystic heaven groans, And all his priesthood moans.
And so Galahad decided that it would be a disgrace to set off on a quest with the other knights. Alone he would enter the dark forest where there was no path. This is the myth of The Hero’s Journey.
Freud tells us to blame our parents for all the shortcomings of our life, Marx tells us to blame the upper class of our society. But the only one to blame is oneself.
Preachers err by trying to talk people into belief; better they reveal the radiance of their own discovery.
There’s nothing militant about Jesus. I don’t read anything like that in any of the gospels. Peter drew his sword and cut off the servant’s ear, and Jesus said, “Put back thy sword, Peter.” But Peter has had his sword out and at work ever since.
A one sentence definition of mythology? Mythology is what we call someone else’s religion.
The sin of inadvertence, not being alert, not quite awake, is the sin of missing the moment of life-live with unremitting alertness.
Myth is what we call other people’s religion.
Where there is a way or path, it is someone else’s. Each of us has to find his own way.
It is not only that there is no hiding place for the gods from the searching telescope and microscope; there is no such society any more as the gods once supported.
Our life evokes our character and you find out more about yourself as you go on.
It is within you that the divine lives.
If you want to find out what it means to have a society without any rituals, read the New York Times.
The ground of being is the ground of our being, and when we simply turn outward, we see all of these little problems here and there. But, if we look inward, we see that we are the source of them all.
When we follow our bliss, we are met by a thousand unseen helping hands.
All life stinks and you must embrace that with compassion.