Every religion, every mythology is true in this sense: It is true as metaphorical of the human and cosmic mystery.

We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us.

Life has no meaning. Each of us has meaning and we bring it to life. It is a waste to be asking the question when you are the answer.

If the path before you is clear, you're probably on someone else's.

I don't believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive.

The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.

Find a place inside where there's joy, and the joy will burn out the pain.

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?'

A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.

Life is not a problem to be solved but a mystery to be lived. Follow the path that is no path, follow your bliss.

It is by going down into the abyss that we recover the treasures of life. Where you stumble, there lies your treasure.

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People cannot help their predilections, although they may conceal them.

I didn't like not having work and not having people return my calls.

It is better to go down on the great seas which human hearts were made to sail than to rot at the wharves in ignoble anchorage.

Lenin could listen so intently that he exhausted the speaker.

Come on you raver, you seer of visions, come on you painter, you piper, you prisoner, and shine.

My father combined many of the elements that were feared in the culture, but also he was a warm figure, a figure we needed. We depended on him to give us a little bit of strength and courage.

I believe we have to put art back at the center of everyday life rather than allowing it to become a specialist activity at the margins of society.

to change our realities, we also have to change our myths. As history amply demonstrates, myths and realities go hand in hand.