When an idea is important to a person or culture it will find its way into imagery.
You have been thinking one way. Now you have to think a different way.
Vegetarians are people who cannot hear tomatos screaming.
When you find a writer who really is saying something to you, read everything that writer has written and you will get more education and depth of understanding out of that than reading a scrap here and a scrap there and elsewhere. Then go to people who influenced that writer, or those who were related to him, and your world builds together in an organic way that is really marvelous.
The ultimate dragon is within you, it is your ego clamping you down.
We have today to learn to get back into accord with the wisdom of nature and realize again our brotherhood with the animals and with the water and the sea.
The perfect human being is uninteresting.
Heroism is a matter of integrity--beco ming more and more at each step ourselves.
There's something inside you that knows when you're in the center, that knows when you're on the beam or off the beam. And if you get off the beam to earn money, you've lost your life. And if you stay in the center and don't get any money, you still have your bliss.
Eternity isn't some later time. Eternity isn't a long time. Eternity has nothing to do with time. Eternity is that dimension of here and now which thinking and time cuts out. This is it. And if you don't get it here, you won't get it anywhere. And the experience of eternity right here and now is the function of life.
I think that Jean Houston has broken through to a new understanding of the sense and uses of inward-turned contemplation-a n understanding that leaves the Freudian schools of technique and theory far behind. The accent is not on the curing of disease but on the enlargement, rather, of our health.
Opportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves come when life seems most challenging.
The person who thinks he has found the ultimate truth is wrong.
If you are falling....dive.
You can't say life is useless because it ends in the grave.
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.
When you are required to exhibit strength, it comes.
If you want to change the world, you have to change the metaphor.
Poets are simply those who have made a profession and a lifestyle of being in touch with their bliss.
The insecure way is the secure way.
It is not society which is to guide and save the creative hero, but precisely the reverse.
Love is the burning point of life, and since all life is sorrowful, so is love. The stronger the love, the more the pain. Love itself is pain, you might say -the pain of being truly alive.
The principle of compassion is that which converts disillusionment into a participatory companionship. This is the basic love, the charity, that turns a critic into a living human being who has something to give to - as well as to demand of - the world.
You can't have creativity unless you leave behind the bounded, the fixed, all the rules
The adventure evoked a quality of his character that he didn't know he possessed.
The adventure is always and everywhere a passage beyond the veil of the known into the unknown; the powers that watch at the boundary are dangerous; to deal with them is risky; yet for anyone with competence and courage the danger fades.
When you are falling --- Dive!
Out of perfection nothing can be made. Every process involves breaking something up. The earth must be broken to bring forth life. If the seed does not die there is no plant. Bread results from the death of wheat. Life lives on lives. Our own life lives on the acts of other people. If you are lifeworthy, you can take it.
Love is perfect kindness.
It takes courage to do what you want. Other people have a lot of plans for you... Follow your bliss.
Art is the set of wings to carry you out of your own entanglement.
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?'
In marriage you are not sacrificing yourself to the other person. You are sacrificing yourself to the relationship.
We are the consciousness of the earth. We are the eyes of the earth. The voice of the earth.
All life stinks and you must embrace that with compassion.
Out of perfection nothing can be made. Every process involves breaking something up.
No one in the world was ever you before, with your particular gifts and abilities and possibilities.
The world is full of people who have stopped listening to themselves.
Participate joyfully in the sorrows of life
A bit of advice Given to a young Native American At the time of his initiation: As you go the way of life, You will see a great chasm. Jump. It is not as wide as you think.
It's characteristic of democracy that majority rule is understood as being effective not only in politics but also in thinking. In thinking, of course, the majority is always wrong.
The function of the society is to cultivate the individual. It is not the function of the individual to support society.
If you really want to help this world, what you will have to teach is how to live in it.
You are the Hero of your own Story.
If you have the guts to follow the risk...if one follows what I call one's "bliss" - the thing that really gets you deep in the gut and that you feel is your life - doors will open up...if you follow your bliss, you'll have your bliss, whether you have money or not.
Wars and temper tantrums are the makeshifts of ignorance; regrets are illuminations come too late.
There is no greater privilege in life than being yourself.
If you follow your bliss...the life that you ought to be living is the one you are living.
Life is not a problem to be solved but a mystery to be lived. Follow the path that is no path, follow your bliss.
Our life evokes our character and you find out more about yourself as you go on.
Successful marriage is leading innovative lives together, being open, non-programmed. It’s a free fall: how you handle each new thing as it comes along. As a drop of oil on the sea, you must float, using intellect and compassion to ride the waves.
A hero is not a champion of things become, but of things becoming; the dragon to be slain by him is precisely the monster of the status quo.
We have to permit go with the everyday living we had prepared so as to have the lifetime that's watching for us
Nothing is exciting if you know what the outcome is going to be.
Art is the clothing of a revelation
Eternity is not the hereafter...this is it. If you don't get it here you won't get it anywhere.
The seizure of passionate love can be, in such a context, only illicit, breaking in upon the order of one's dutiful life in virtue as a devastating storm.
The dreamer and his dream are the same...the powers personified in a dream are these that move the world.
The quest for fire occurred not because anyone knew what the practical uses for fire would be, but because it was fascinating.
Don't do anything that isn't play
