“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 hero journey is inside of you; tear off the veils and open the mystery of your self.

You become mature when you become the authority of your own life.

Wisdom and foolishness are practically the same. Both are indifferent to the opinions of the world.

And so Galahad decided that it would be a disgrace to set off on a quest with the other knights. Alone he would enter the dark forest where there was no path. This is the myth of The Hero’s Journey.

Your sacred space is where you can find yourself again and again.

The god you worship is the one you’re capable of becoming.

God is a metaphor for that which transcends all levels of intellectual thought. It’s as simple as that.

Whatever the hell happens, say, ‘This is what I need.’

We’re so engaged in doing things to achieve purposes of outer value that we forget the inner value, the rapture that is associated with being alive, is what it is all about.

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

Respect your curses, for they are the instruments of your destiny.

No one in the world was ever you before, with your particular gifts and abilities and possibilities.

When you realize that eternity is right here now, that it is within your possibility to experience the eternity of your own truth and being, then you grasp the following: That which you are was never born and will never die. . . . (90)

It is the function of art to carry us beyond speech to experience.

Questing… is not an ego trip; it is an adventure to bring into fulfillment your gift to the world, which is yourself.

When everything is lost, and all seems darkness, then comes the new life and all that is needed.

Focus on humanity. It keeps you alive.

Have I been buried alive by chronic pain? I can taste the dirt as they put me in the earth, thick on my lips like the honey that drips down my lips.

Hate all you want that doesn’t change the fact I’m one of the hardest young niggas alive night now.

I won’t be like Snow White and wait around for some guy. Prince charming’s kiss isn’t the only thing that makes me feel alive.

Hope is the only thing that keeps us alive. Without hope there can be no you or I.

Sometimes life breaks us and buries us alive, but that is how we find our purpose and rise bloom in love.

In the morning it was morning and I was still alive.

Pain is only a reflection that proves you are alive.