Love your enemies, for they determine who you are.
Follow your bliss and don't be afraid, and door will open where you didn't know they were going to be.
......the interesting thing was that the Roman Catholic monks and the Buddhist monks had no trouble understanding each other. Each of them was seeking the same experience and knew that the experience was incommunicable. The communication is only an effort to bring the hearer to the edge of the abyss; it is a signpost, not the thing itself. But the secular clergy reads the communication and gets stuck with the letter, and that's where you have the conflict.
In choosing your god, you choose your way of looking at the universe. There are plenty of Gods. Choose yours.
I prefer the gradual path My feeling is that mythic forms reveal themselves gradually in the course of your life if you know what they are and how to pay attention to their emergence. My own initiation into the mythic depths of the unconscious has been through the mind, through the books that surround me in this library. I have recognized in my quest all the stages of the hero's journey. I had my calls to adventure, my guides, demons, and illuminations.
When I was in India I met and conversed briefly with Shri Atmananda Guru of Trivandrum, and the question he gave me to ponder was this: 'Where are you between two thoughts?
There's always the possibility of a fiasco. But there's also the possibility of bliss.
Christianity isn’t moving people’s lives today. What’s moving people’s lives is the stock market and the baseball scores. What are people excited about? It’s a totally materialistic level that has taken over the world. There isn’t even an ideal that anybody’s fighting for.
I think it's important to live life with a knowledge of its mystery, and of your own mystery.
Don't do anything that isn't play
Life is but a mask worn on the face of death. And is death, then, but another mask? 'How many can say,' asks the Aztec poet, 'that there is, or is not, a truth beyond?'
Life, in both its knowing and its doing, has become today a "free fall," so to say, into the next minute, into the future. So that, whereas, formerly, those not wishing to hazard the adventure of an individual life could rest within the pale of a comfortably guaranteed social order, today all the walls have burst. It is not left to us to chooseto hazard the adventure of an unprecedented life: adventure is upon us, like a tidal wave.
You are the Hero of your own Story.
Every act has both good and evil results. The best we can do is lean to the light.
The problem of making the inner meet the outer of today is, of course, the function of the artist.
Myths are clues to the spiritual potentialities of the human life.
What we're learning in our schools is not the wisdom of life. We're learning technologies, we're getting information. There's a curious reluctance on the part of faculties to indicate the life values of their subjects.
The process of nature cannot be evil.
If you want to change the world, you have to change the metaphor.
You have to have a feeling for where you are. You've got only one life to live and you don't have to live it for six people. Pay attention to it.
The Navajo have that wonderful image of what they call the pollen path. The Navajo say, 'Oh, beauty before me, beauty behind me, beauty to the right of me, beauty to the left of me, beauty above me, beauty below me, I'm on the pollen path.'
"Make your god transparent to the transcendent, and it doesn't matter what his name is."
Poetry comes out of an elite experience, the experience of people whose ears are opened to the song of the universe.
The role of the artist I now understood as that of revealing through the world-surfaces the implicit forms of the soul, and the great agent to assist the artist was the myth.
When you make the sacrifice in marriage, you're sacrificing not to each other but to unity in a relationship.
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