The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.
The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.
If the path before you is clear, you're probably on someone else's.
If you are falling, dive.
Find a place inside where there’s joy, and the joy will burn out the pain.
Your sacred space is where you can find yourself over and over again.
The big question is whether you are going to be able to say a hearty yes to your adventure.
Opportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves come when life seems most challenging.
The job of an educator is to teach students to see vitality in themselves.
A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.
You are the hero of your own story.
There is perhaps nothing worse than reaching the top of the ladder and discovering that you're on the wrong wall.
There seem to be only two kinds of people: Those who think that metaphors are facts, and those who know that they are not facts. Those who know they are not facts are what we call “atheists,” and those who think they are facts are “religious.” Which group really gets the message?
The big problem of any young person’s life is to have models to suggest possibilities. Nietzsche says, ‘Man is the sick animal.’ Man is the animal that doesn’t know what to do with itself. The mind has many possibilities, but we can live no more than one life. What are we going to do with ourselves?
Life lives on life. This is the sense of the symbol of the Ouroboros, the serpent biting its tail. Everything that lives lives on the death of something else. Your own body will be food for something else. Anyone who denies this, anyone who holds back, is out of order. Death is an act of giving.
Full circle, from to tomb of the womb to the womb of the tomb, we come.
Where we had thought to travel outward, we will come to the center of our own existence. And where we had thought to be alone, we will be with all the world.
The old skin has to be shed before the new one can come.
The demon that you can swallow gives you its power, and the greater life’s pain, the greater life’s reply.
You know, when real trouble comes your humanity is awakened. The fundamental human experience is that of compassion.