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.

Your life is the fruit of your own doing. You have no one to blame but yourself.

Computers are like Old Testament gods; lots of rules and no mercy.

When we quit thinking primarily about ourselves and our own self-preservation, we undergo a truly heroic transformation of consciousness.

It is by going down into the abyss that we recover the treasures of life. Where you stumble, there lies your treasure.

Every religion is true one way or another. It is true when understood metaphorically. But when it gets stuck in its own metaphors, interpreting them as facts, then you are in trouble.

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.

Find a place inside where there's joy, and the joy will burn out the pain.

Follow your bliss and the universe will open doors where there were only walls.

Participate joyfully in the sorrows of the world. We cannot cure the world of sorrows, but we can choose to live in joy.

God is a metaphor for that which trancends all levels of intellectual thought. It's as simple as that.

Love is a friendship set to music.

When you make the sacrifice in marriage, you're sacrificing not to each other but to unity in a relationship.

The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.

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.

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.

Opportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves come when life seems most challenging.

Myths are public dreams, dreams are private myths.

The goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with Nature.

I don't believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive.

Life is without meaning. You bring the meaning to it. The meaning of life is whatever you ascribe it to be. Being alive is the meaning.

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.

One way or another, we all have to find what best fosters the flowering of our humanity in this contemporary life, and dedicate ourselves to that.

We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us.

Your sacred space is where you can find yourself again and again.

The big question is whether you are going to be able to say a hearty yes to your adventure.

A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.

Is the system going to flatten you out and deny you your humanity, or are you going to be able to make use of the system to the attainment of human purposes?

I don't have to have faith, I have experience.

God is a metaphor for that which transcends all levels of intellectual thought. It's as simple as that.

We must be willing to get rid of the life we planned so as to have the life that is waiting for us.

We must be willing to let go of the life we planned so as to have the life that is waiting for us.

Follow your bliss and the universe will open doors for you where there were only walls.

Follow your bliss and the universe will open doors for youwhere there were only walls.

Where you stumble and fall, there you will find gold.

Find a place inside where there’s joy, and the joy will burn out the pain.

We must be willing to let go of the life we've planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.

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.

Suddenly you’re ripped into being alive. And life is pain, and life is suffering, and life is horror, but my god you’re alive and its spectacular.

Apocalypse does not point to a fiery Armageddon, but to our ignorance and complacency coming to an end.

Follow your bliss and dont be afraid and door will open where you didnt know they were going to be.

We must be willing to let go of the life weve planned so as to have the life that is waiting for us.

Find a place inside where theres joy and the joy will burn out the pain.

The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.

The demon that you can swallow gives you its power and the greater lifes pain the greater lifes reply.

Find a place inside where theres joy and that will burn out the pain.

Computers are like old testament gods lots of rules and no mercy.

To find your own way is to follow your bliss. This involves analysis watching yourself and seeing where real deep bliss is not the quick little excitement but the real deep life filling bliss.

Our demons are our own limitations which shut us off from the realization of the ubiquity of the spirit each of these demons is conquered in a vision quest.