Not all who hesitate are lost. The psyche has many secrets in reserve. And these are not disclosed unless required.
The creative act is not hanging on, but yielding to a new creative movement. Awe is what moves us forward.
It’s only when a man tames his own demons that he becomes the king of himself if not of the world.
The very cave you are afraid to enter turns out to be the source of what you are looking for.
If you want to change the world, you have to change the metaphor.
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.
Poets are simply those who have made a profession ans a lifestyle of being in touch with their bliss.
Seek to know the power that is within you.
Participate joyfully in the sorrows of the world. We cannot cure the world of sorrows, but we can choose to live in joy.
When we quit thinking primarily about ourselves and our own self-preservation, we undergo a truly heroic transformation of consciousness.
Successful marriage is leading innovative lives together, being open, non-programmed. It’s a free fall: how you handle each new thing as it comes along. As a drop of oil on the sea, you must float, using intellect and compassion to ride the waves.
When people get married because they think it’s a long-time love affair, they’ll be divorced very soon, because all love affairs end in disappointment. But marriage is a recognition of a spiritual identity.
There is no security in following the call to adventure.
The adventure of the hero is the adventure of being alive.
Passion will move men beyond themselves, beyond their shortcomings, beyond their failures.
Out of perfection nothing can be made. Every process involves breaking something up.
The Deadheads are doing the dance of life and this I would say is the answer to the atom bomb.
You have to strive every minute to get rid of the life that you have planned in order to have the life that’s waiting to be yours. Move, move, move.
People who don’t have a concept of the whole can do very unfortunate things.
There is no way you can use the word “reality” without quotation marks around it.