Mythology is composed by poets out of their insights and realizations. Mythologies are not invented; they are found. You can no more tell us what your dream is going to be tonight than we can invent a myth. Myths come from the mystical region of essential experience.
The job of an educator is to teach students to see vitality in themselves
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 problem in our society and in our schools is to inclulcate, without overdoing it, the notion of education, as in the Latin educere--to lead, to bring out what is in someone rather than merely to indoctrinate him/her from the outside. (89)
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 big question is whether you are going to be able to say a hearty yes to your adventure.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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?
A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.
Your life is the fruit of your own doing. You have no one to blame but yourself.
Follow your bliss and the universe will open doors where there were only walls.
Find a place inside where there's joy, and the joy will burn out the pain.
Opportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves come when life seems most challenging.
Computers are like Old Testament gods; lots of rules and no mercy.
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.
Participate joyfully in the sorrows of the world. We cannot cure the world of sorrows, but we can choose to live in joy.
