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Follow your bliss and don't be afraid, and door will open where you didn't know they were going to be.
Economics and politics are the governing powers of life today, and that's why everything is so screwy.
God is a metaphor for that which transcends all levels of intellectual thought. It's as simple as that.
Gods suppressed become devils, and often it is these devils whom we first encounter when we turn inward.
If you want to know what a given society believes in, look at what its largest buildings are devoted to.
He must put aside his pride, his virtue, beauty and life and bow or submit to the absolutely intolerable.
The dreamer and his dream are the same...the powers personified in a dream are these that move the world.
I think of compassion as the fundamental religious experience and, unless that is there, you have nothing.
So that's what destiny is: simply the fulfillment of the potentialites of the energies in your own system.
The creative act is not hanging on, but yielding to a new creative movement. Awe is what moves us forward.
If there were already a path, it would have to be someone else's; the whole point is to find your own way.
The demon that you can swallow gives you it’s power, and the greater life’s pain, the greater life’s reply.
If you realize what the real problem is-losing yourself-you realize that this itself is the ultimate trial.
Preachers err by trying to talk people into belief; better they reveal the radiance of their own discovery.
The goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with Nature.
One great thing about growing old is that nothing is going to lead to anything. Everything is of the moment.
When you make the sacrifice in marriage, you're sacrificing not to each other but to unity in a relationship.
Whether you call someone a hero or a monster is all relative to where the focus of your consciousness may be.
In choosing your god, you choose your way of looking at the universe. There are plenty of Gods. Choose yours.
For the bliss of the deep abode is not lightly abandoned in favor of the self-scattering of the wakened state.
Mythology helps you to identify the mysteries of the energies pouring through you. Therein lies your eternity.
We have to permit go with the everyday living we had prepared so as to have the lifetime that's watching for us
Myth is the secret opening through which the inexhaustible energies of the cosmos pour into human manifestation.
Myth is much more important and true than history. History is just journalism and you know how reliable that is.
When before the beauty of a sunset or a mountain, you pause and exclaim, 'Ah,' you are participating in divinity.
Mythology is often defined as 'other peoples' religions', religion can be thought of as misinterpreted mythology.
The modern hero-deed must be that of questing to bring to light again the lost Atlantis of the co-ordinated Soul.
Life is not a problem to be solved but a mystery to be lived. Follow the path that is no path, follow your bliss.
There is perhaps nothing worse than reaching the top of the ladder and discovering that you’re on the wrong wall.
Every religion, every mythology is true in this sense: It is true as metaphorical of the human and cosmic mystery.
Mythological symbols touch and exhilarate centers of life beyond the reach of vocabularies of reason and coercion.
We are kept out of the Garden by our own fear and desire in relation to what we think to be the goods of our life.
In marriage you are not sacrificing yourself to the other person. You are sacrificing yourself to the relationship.
What the artist must render is a living moment somehow, a living moment actually in action or an inward experience.
Not all who hesitate are lost. The psyche has many secrets in reserve. And these are not disclosed unless required.
Life is a guy trying to play a violin solo in public, while learning the music and his instrument at the same time.
You know, when real trouble comes your humanity is awakened. The fundamental human experience is that of compassion.
Poetry comes out of an elite experience, the experience of people whose ears are opened to the song of the universe.
Each of us has capacities. The real trick is knowing the machinery of the boat in which you are crossing the channel.
It is by going down into the abyss that we recover the treasures of life. Where you stumble, there lies your treasure.
I think the person who takes a job in order to live - that is to say, for the money - has turned himself into a slave.
The purpose of the journey is compassion. When you have come past the pairs of opposites, you have reached compassion.
It has always been the prime function of mythology and rite to supply the symbols that carry the human spirit forward.
Questing... is not an ego trip; it is an adventure to bring into fulfillment your gift to the world, which is yourself.
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.
The hero, therefore, is the man or woman who has been able to battle past his personal and local historical limitations.
Participate joyfully in the sorrows of the world. We cannot cure the world of sorrows, but we can choose to live in joy.
When you follow your bliss, you begin to meet people who are in the field of your bliss, and they open the doors to you.
The function of the society is to cultivate the individual. It is not the function of the individual to support society.
If you want to see what a society really believes in, look at what the biggest buildings on the horizon are dedicated to.