When you have lived your individual life in your own adventurous way and then look back upon its course, you will find that you have lived a model human life, after all.

Mythology may, in a real sense, be defined as other people's religion. And religion may, in a sense, be understood as popular misunderstanding of mythology. (8)

[T]he experience of mystery comes not from expecting it but through yielding all your programs, because your programs are based on fear and desire. Drop them and the radiance comes. (16)

It may be a species of impudence to think that the way you understand God is the way God is. (60).

When you translate the Bible with excessive literalism, you demythologize it. The possibility of a convincing reference to the individual's own spiritual experience is lost. (111)

The Garden is a metaphor for the following: our minds, and our thinking in terms of pairs of opposites--man and woman, good and evil--are as holy as that of a god. (50)

Every woman is distinctly beautiful because every woman has a motherly instinct.

One either cares what others think about him, or cares what others think he thinks about them. If you want to find someone who doesn't care in the slightest what anyone thinks, try a lunatic asylum.

There is no such thing as accomplishing a righteous reform by the use of 'expediency.' There is no such thing as sliding up hill. In morals, the only sliders are backsliders.

My specialty is detached malevolence.

I march to a different drummer, whose location, identity, and musical training haven't yet been established.

Listen, listen, listen.

Without [the settlements] the IDF (Israeli Defense Force) [Israeli Defense Force] would be a foreign army ruling a foreign population.

Humor is the offspring of man; it comes forth like Minerva, fully armed from the brain.

We should picture the instrument that carries our mental functioning as resembling a compound microscope or photographic apparatus.

The most important thing in illness is never to lose heart.