A mythological image that has to be explained to the brain is not working.

You can get a lot of work done if you stay with it and are excited and its play instead of work.

Passion makes most psychiatrists nervous

The first function of mythology is showing everything as a metaphor to transcendence.

The fundamental human experience is that of compassion.

Mythology is to relate found truth to the living of a life.

The imitation of Christ is the joyful participation in the sorrows of the world.

When you don't have a job (requiring reading) and you are doing your own reading you've got deep psychological questions. As deep as those of a little boy.

Reading what you want, and having one book lead to the next, is the way I found my discipline.

What's happened to me, ' he thought. It was no dream.

Anything that feels good couldn't possibly be bad.

People will follow your example, not your advice.

Dogmas of every kind put assertion in the place of reason and give rise to more contention, bitterness, and want of charity than any other influence in human affairs.

There is the fear, common to all English-only speakers, that the chief purpose of foreign languages is to make fun of us. Otherwise, you know, why not just come out and say it?

If a spiritual teacher says something that doesn't make sense to you, you should always listen to yourself and not the teacher. A little common sense would end all cults.

Nothing erases unpleasant thoughts more effectively than conscious concentration on pleasant ones.

Anyone who hates something feels threatened by it. A guy who says he hates feminism (a) doesn't understand or know feminism, and (b) is scared of powerful women. Most attacks come from fear.

In January '77 I went out to LA and have been here 26 years.

The more I know, the more I realise I don't know. And the more I realise I'll never truly understand.