We have today to learn to get back into accord with the wisdom of nature and realize again our brotherhood with the animals and with the water and the sea.
God is an intelligible sphere-a sphere known to mind, not to the senses-whose center is everywhere and whose circumference nowhere.
For we do not even have to risk the adventure alone, for the heroes of all time have gone before us...
The best things cannot be told because they transcend thought. The second best are misunderstood because they are the thoughts that are supposed to refer to that which cannot be thought about. The third best are what we talk about.
The familiar life horizon has been outgrown: the old concepts, ideals, and emotional patterns no longer fit; the time for the passing of a threshold is at hand.
The influence of a vital being vitalizes.
Every story you tell is your own story.
Everything starts with a story.
If we fix on the old, we get stuck.
Hell is life drying up.
When before the beauty of a sunset or a mountain, you pause and exclaim, ‘Ah,’ you are participating in divinity.
The adventure is always and everywhere a passage beyond the veil of the known into the unknown; the powers that watch at the boundary are dangerous; to deal with them is risky; yet for anyone with competence and courage the danger fades.
The one radiance shines through all things.
I think it’s important to live life with a knowledge of its mystery, and of your own mystery.
Survival is the second law of life. The first is that we are all one.
Art is the clothing of a revelation.
The dance is the highest symbol of life itself.
What each must seek in his life never was on land or sea. It is something out of his own unique potentiality for experience, something that never has been and never could have been experienced by anyone else.
Now, when Luke Skywalker unmasks his father, he is taking off the machine role that the father has played. The father was the uniform. That is power, the state role.
The quest for fire occurred not because anyone knew what the practical uses for fire would be, but because it was fascinating.