The key to the Grail is compassion, ‘suffering with,’ feeling another’s sorrow as if it were your own. The one who finds the dynamo of compassion is the one who’s found the Grail.
There is an Indian fable of three beings who drank from a river: one was a god, and he drank ambrosia; one was a man, and he drank water; and one was a demon, and he drank filth. What you get is a function of your own consciousness.
It’s characteristic of democracy that majority rule is understood as being effective not only in politics but also in thinking. In thinking, of course, the majority is always wrong.
Regrets are illuminations come too late.
Where you stumble and fall, there you will find gold.
If you can see your path laid out in front of you step by step, you know it’s not your path. Your own path you make with every step you take. That’s why it’s your path.
Gods suppressed become devils, and often it is these devils whom we first encounter when we turn inward.
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.