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.
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.
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.