The latest incarnation of Oedipus, the continued romance of Beauty and the Beast, stand this afternoon on the corner of 42nd Street and Fifth Avenue, waiting for the traffic light to change.
How to get rid of ego as dictator and turn it into messenger and servant and scout, to be in your service, is the trick.
I always tell my students follow your bliss. When you have that feeling then stay with it and don’t let anyone throw you off.
Heroism is a matter of integrity – beco ming more and more at each step ourselves.
We are standing on a whale fishing for minnows.
Respect your curses, for they are the instruments of your destiny.
The call to adventure signifies that destiny has summoned the hero.
You can’t say life is useless because it ends in the grave.
Whether you call someone a hero or a monster is all relative to where the focus of your consciousness may be.
Wars and temper tantrums are the makeshifts of ignorance; regrets are illuminations come too late.
The person who thinks he has found the ultimate truth is wrong.
Life is without meaning. You bring the meaning to it.
Whenever men have looked for something solid on which to found their lives, they have chosen not the facts in which the world abounds, but the myths of an immemorial imagination.
First you must find your trajectory, and then comes the social coordination.
The purpose of the journey is compassion. When you have come past the pairs of opposites, you have reached compassion.
When we talk about settling the world’s problems, we’re barking up the wrong tree. The world is perfect. It’s a mess. It has always been a mess. We’re not going to change it. Our job is to straighten out our own lives.
All babies are Buddha babies.
Sin always finds its root in our own selfish desires and self-gratification.
The courage to face the trials and to bring a whole new body of possibilities into the field of interpreted experience for other people to experience – that is the hero’s deed.
If you can see your path clearly in front of you, it’s probably someone else’s.