“The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.”

I always tell my students, go where your body and soul want to go. When you have the feeling, then stay with it, and don’t let anyone throw you off.

Where you stumble and fall, there you will find gold.

Gods suppressed become devils, and often it is these devils whom we first encounter when we turn inward.

The myth does not point to a fact; the myth points beyond facts to something that informs the fact.

How do you find the divine power in yourself? The word enthusiasm means ‘filled with a god,’ so what makes you enthusiastic? Follow it. So I have a little word: follow your bliss. The bliss is the message of God to yourself. That’s where your life is.

The Fates guide those who will and drag those who won’t!

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

Let the world be as it is and learn to rock with the waves.

The purpose of the journey is compassion. When you have come past the pairs of opposites, you have reached compassion.

Vegetarians are people who cannot hear tomatos screaming.

Change the focus of the eye. When you have done that, then the end of the world as you formerly knew it will have occurred, and you will experience the radiance of the divine presence everywhere, here and now.

Suddenly you’re ripped into being alive. And life is pain, and life is suffering, and life is horror, but my god you’re alive and its spectacular.

You’ve got to say yes to this miracle of life as it is, not on condition that it follow your rules.

The problem of making the inner meet the outer of today is, of course, the function of the artist.

If you follow your bliss…the life that you ought to be living is the one you are living.

You don’t ask what a dance means. You enjoy it. You don’t ask what the world means. You enjoy it. You don’t ask what you mean. You enjoy it.

Profound joy of the heart is like a magnet that indicates the path of life.

Life’s deep opportunities are found in our connection with people.  

Have the courage to believe in yourself and watch magical things start to happen in your life.  

If you do not expect the unexpected, you will not find it; for it is hard to be sought out and difficult.

If you fight with all your might, there is a chance of life; where as death is certain if you cling to your corner.

I now say to myself, ‘I trust the process of life’ to remind me that even in the darkest hours there is still light and possibility.

The value of a conversation with somebody could change your whole life.

But a kingdom that has once been destroyed can never come again into being; nor can the dead ever be brought back to life.