“You’ve got to find the force inside you.”

If you are on the right path you will find that invisible hands are helping.

A hero ventures forth from the world of common day into a region of supernatural wonder. Fabulous forces are there encountered and a decisive victory is won.

Midlife is when you reach the top of the ladder and find that it was against the wrong wall.

You have to learn to recognize your own depth.

If the path before you is clear, you’re probably on someone else’s.

The psychotic drowns in the same waters in which the mystic swims with delight.

People forget facts, but they remember stories.

The quest for fire occurred not because anyone knew what the practical uses for fire would be, but because it was fascinating.

The old skin has to be shed before the new one can come.

The ultimate aim of the quest must be neither release nor ecstasy for oneself, but the wisdom and the power to serve others.

Myth is much more important and true than history. History is just journalism and you know how reliable that is.

Both the artist and the lover know that perfection is not loveable. It is the clumsiness of a fault that makes a person lovable.

Myth is the secret opening through which the inexhaustible energies of the cosmos pour into human manifestation.

When you are on your path, and it is truly your path, doors will open for you where there were no doors for someone else.

I think of compassion as the fundamental religious experience and, unless that is there, you have nothing.

When you follow your bliss a kind of track opens up, that’s always been there, waiting for you. And the life that you should be living, is the one that you will be living.

Be a force of love as often as you can and turn away negative thoughts whenever you feel them surface.

Fortune, which has a great deal of power in other matters but especially in war, can bring about great changes in a situation through very slight forces.

Forcing things only creates more tension in the mind. Let go.

Forcing something can delay its progress. 

Is it your own destiny? Or is it a destiny someone else has tried to force on you?

The practice of love offers no place of safety. We risk loss, hurt, pain. We risk being acted upon by forces outside our control.

May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house.

Nothing forces us to know What we do not want to know except pain.