If you do follow your bliss you put yourself on a kind of track that has been there all the while, waiting for you, and the life that you ought to be living is the one you are living. Follow your bliss and don’t be afraid, and doors will open where you didn’t know they were going to be.
If the path before you is clear, you’re probably on someone else’s.
One great thing about growing old is that nothing is going to lead to anything. Everything is of the moment.
I don’t believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive.
Sit in a room and read–and read and read. And read the right books by the right people. Your mind is brought onto that level, and you have a nice, mild, slow-burning rapture all the time.
The demon that you can swallow gives you its power, and the greater life’s pain, the greater life’s reply.
Follow your bliss and the universe will open doors for you where there were only walls.
We must be willing to let go of the life we planned so as to have the life that is waiting for us.
Myth is much more important and true than history. History is just journalism and you know how reliable that is.
Computers are like Old Testament gods; lots of rules and no mercy.
Your sacred space is where you can find yourself over and over again.
You become mature when you become the authority of your own life.
You enter the forest
at the darkest point,
where there is no path.
Where there is a way or path,
it is someone else’s path.
You are not on your own path.
If you follow someone else’s way,
you are not going to realize
your potential.
Modern romance, like Greek tragedy, celebrates the mystery of dismemberment, which is life in time. The happy ending is justly scorned as a misrepresentation; for the world, as we know it, as we have seen it, yields but one ending: death, disintegration, dismemberment, and the crucifixion of our heart with the passing of the forms that we have loved.
It is by going down into the abyss that we recover the treasures of life. Where you stumble, there lies your treasure.
We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us.
The first step to the knowledge of the wonder and mystery of life is the recognition of the monstrous nature of the earthly human realm as well as its glory, the realization that this is just how it is and that it cannot and will not be changed. Those who think they know how the universe could have been had they created it, without pain, without sorrow, without time, without death, are unfit for illumination.
Opportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves come when life seems most challenging.