And I realize how useless wails are and how gratuitous melancholy is.

The great cosmic illusion is a hierophany.... One is devoured by Time, not because one lives in Time, but because one believes in its reality, and therefore forgets or despises eternity.

Man becomes aware of the Sacred because it manifests itself, shows itself, as something wholly different from the Profane.

As long as you have not grasped that you have to die to grow, you are a troubled guest on the dark earth".

The way towards 'wisdom' or towards 'freedom' is the way towards your inner being. This is the simplest definition of metaphysics.

Light does not come from light, but from darkness.

The primitive magician, the medicine man or shaman is not only a sick man, he is above all, a sick man who has been cured, who has succeeded in curing himself.

The Experience of Sacred Space makes possible the founding of the world: where the sacred Manifests itself in space, the real unveils itself, the world comes into existence.

If we pay no attention to it, time does not exist.

It would be frightening to think that in all the cosmos, which is so harmonious, so complete and equal to itself, that only human life is happening randomly, that only one's destiny lacks meaning.

I don't want to be mediocre, this is the fear of my soul and my body.

I have seen the best of you, and the worst of you, and I choose both.

In order to understand, observe, deduce, man must first be conscious of himself as alive.

What do we feel when we look at a good photograph? We just want to be there, right at the exact moment that photo taken!

There's some end at last for the man who follows a path mere rambling is interminable.

If you see a man approaching with the obvious intent of doing you good, run for your life. Consider pleasures as they depart, not as they come.

Mysticism is, in essence, little more than a certain intensity and depth of feeling in regard to what is believed about the universe.

The question is one of fighting the causes and not just being satisfied with getting rid of the effects.

I loved the angiogram. They stick a thing in your thigh and it goes all the way up to your heart. Isn't that a thrill? Well, at least the nurse scored thigh.

When I loose my faith in Human nature, I put my faith in Nature-

I had a video made of my recent knee operation. The doctor said it was the best movie I ever starred in.