When you step further into the story you came to live, not only does the mythic territory open, but the deep self moves and the world of imagination and meaning comes towards you.

Each person is a story that the Soul of the World wants to tell to itself.

Emotions are the natural substances of the soul ... and when we think we can't handle the emotions, we lose the natural substances of the soul and begin looking for substances to replace the flow.

Everyone gets wounded in this world and everyone has within them some golden qualities that can serve to heal the wounds of time and the traumatic effects of human tragedy.

As a culture, we turn away from people just when they are in times of change. That's when most communities used to embrace people, so the individual and the culture both benefited.

A false sense of security is the only kind there is.

When a culture simply shrugs about what happens to people in war, it breaks the fragile sequence, the bond between all people.

The desire to be part of something greater and to occupy life more fully, is also a desire to touch and be touched by the living imagination that sustains each soul and all of life.

While you had the chance to live, did you become your true self?

Genius is the basis for the deepest type of mentoring. When true learning occurs genius teaches genius and both the teacher and the student grow.

The gift within the gift involved the opening of an inner eye that changed how I looked at life.

It doesn’t cost much to be Happy if the currency of your heart is the blowing of the breeze and the swaying of the trees.

Honestly—who puts a hamburger next to diet tofu curry unless they’re trying to buy your soul?

You will find your purpose revealed in every single action, once you realize that — you — are your purpose.

We are currently facing many hurdles, BUT will never lose the sight of infinite hope.

If I were a writer and not a singer in 10 years, I don't know how I'd feel about writing really personal songs and getting someone else to sing them.

move not in your anger; it is like putting to sea in a tempest.

And sometimes you do everything right and something bad just happens. It's as simple, and as scary, as that.

You can look at a monkey and see that there is more than a five percent difference in DNA.

I start drawing, and eventually the characters involve themselves in a situation. Then in the end, I go back and try to cut out most of the preachments.

It was all very childish. Why on earth should Edward have to leave for Jacob to come over? Weren't we past this immaturity?