It is not only that there is no hiding place for the gods from the searching telescope and microscope; there is no such society any more as the gods once supported.
Our life evokes our character and you find out more about yourself as you go on.
It is within you that the divine lives.
If you want to find out what it means to have a society without any rituals, read the New York Times.
The ground of being is the ground of our being, and when we simply turn outward, we see all of these little problems here and there. But, if we look inward, we see that we are the source of them all.
When we follow our bliss, we are met by a thousand unseen helping hands.
You can’t have creativity unless you leave behind the bounded, the fixed, all the rules.
All life stinks and you must embrace that with compassion.
There is no make-believe about heaven, future bliss, and compensation, to alleviate the bitter majesty, but only utter darkness, the void of unfulfillment, to receive and eat back the lives that have been tossed forth from the womb only to fail.
The notion of this universe, its heavens, hells, and everything within it, as a great dream dreamed by a single being in which all the dream characters are dreaming too, has in India enchanted and shaped the entire civilization.
But the makers of legend have seldom rested content to regard the world’s great heroes as mere human beings who broke past the horizons that limited their fellows and returned such boons as any man with equal faith and courage might have found.
One can experience an unconditional affirmation of life only when one has accepted death, not as contrary to life, but as an aspect of it.
For people who are really alive to have life awakened is more important than to get a sandwich.
The idea of the Bodhisattva is the one who out of his realization of transcendence participates in the world. The imitation of Christ is joyful participation in the sorrows of the world.
The experience of Eternity right here and now, is the function of life.
If you follow your bliss you will find a path laid out before you that has been waiting for you all along and you will begin to live the life you ought to be living.
The hero journey is inside of you; tear off the veils and open the mystery of your self.
You yourself are participating in the evil, or you are not alive. Whatever you do is evil for somebody. This is one of the ironies of the whole creation.
The function of artists is “the mythologization of the world.”
We are having experiences all the time which may on occasion render some sense of this, a little intuition of where your bliss is. Grab it. No one can tell you what it is going to be. You have to learn to recognize your own depth.