We're so engaged in doing things to achieve purposes of outer value that we forget the inner value, the rapture that is associated with being alive, is what it is all about. |
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. |
What millions died that Caesar might be great? |
When Boeing goes down, it goes down for several years, |
When people get married because they think it's a long-time love affair, they'll be divorced very soon, because all love affairs end in disappointment. But marriage is a recognition of a spiritual identity. |
When we quit thinking primarily about ourselves and our own self-preservation, we undergo a truly heroic transformation of consciousness. |
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 are not going to change it. Our job is to straighten out our own lives. |
When you follow your bliss... doors will open where you would not have thought there would be doors; and where there wouldn't be a door for anyone else. |
When you follow your bliss... doors will open where you would not have thought there would be doors; and where there wouldn't be a door for anyone else. |
When you make the sacrifice in marriage, you're sacrificing not to each other but to unity in a relationship. |
When you see the Earth from space, you don't see any divisions of nation-states there. This may be the symbol of the new mythology to come; this is the country we will celebrate, and these are the people we are one with. |
Whenever the poetry of myth is interpreted as biography, history, or science, it is killed. The living images become only remote facts of a distant time or place. Furthermore, it is never difficult to demonstrate that as science and history, mythology is absurd. |
Your life is the fruit of your own doing. You have no one to blame but yourself. |
Your sacred space is where you can find yourself again and again. |