Your dreams change. Initially the belly-buttons help establish the dreamer's predicament - the situation you are trapped in or held back by.

Direct religious experience is threatening to organized religion, which often mediates it with a rabbi or priest.

In our society, to be obsessed with a vision about how to make a better automobile makes you a genius, but to be obsessed with a vision about the nature of reality makes you a nut.

A dream ignored is like a letter unopened.

Historically, the rabbis are split on the question of dreams. None of them denied their power.

Freud "interpreted" dreams by treating them as intellectual riddles whose details, once processed through free association, exposed hidden wishes.

I'm too intellectual. I don't think that the theological vocabulary is as important as the experience.

Dreams are at the foundation of all religions.

We can’t choose our poetic fathers any more than our biological ones — but we can choose how to come to terms with them.

Intuition is a gift, an inner power that you can turn to whenever you need it.

One hand was behind his back, and he held it out, presenting a bouquet of white and smoky purple lilies. “They’re straight from the underworld, by the way. They are everlasting. They won’t die.

The author likens crisis, and particularly war, to stop motion photography in its capacity to make changes plain that are ordinarily too gradual to be seen.

Fate is nothing but the deeds committed in a prior state of existence.

Forgiveness is most Christlike when it is given to the undeserving.

I devalued the peso solely looking after the poor.

It seems to me that today if the artist wishes to be serious... he must once more sink himself in solitude.

Most of the people who are in elective office in Washington, D.C., they have held public office before. How's that workin' for you?

I don't know but maybe it's fair to say that some of the responsibility lies with the American people and not just on the leaders.