Neither in body nor in mind do we inhabit the world of those hunting races of the Palaeolithic millennia, whose lives and life ways we nevertheless owe the very forms of our bodies and structures of our minds. Memories of their animal envoys still must sleep, somehow, within us; for they wake a little and stir when we venture into wilderness. They wake in terror to thunder. And again they wake, with a sense of recognition, when we enter any of those great painted caves. Whatever the inward darkness may have been to which the shamans of those caves descended into their trances, the same must lie within ourselves, nightly visited in sleep.
Be careful lest in casting out the devils you cast out the best thing that's in you.
Sit in a room and read – and read and read. And read the right books by the right people. Your mind is brought on to that level and you have a nice, mild, slow-burning rapture all the time. This realisation can be a constant realisation in your living. When you find an author who really grabs you, read everything he has done… Just read what this one author has to give you. And then you can go read what he had read.
I always told 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.
For example, if you are attached to the rim of the wheel of fortune, you will be either above going down or at the bottom coming up. But if you are at the hub, you are in the same place all the time.
I say, follow your bliss and don't be afraid, and doors will open where you didn't know they were going to be.
The moral objective is that of saving of people, or saving a person, or supporting an idea. The hero sacrifices himself for something – that's the morality of it.
The adventure is symbolically a manifestation of his character.
Are you going to be a person of heart and humanity – because that's where the life is, from the heart – or are you going to do whatever seems to be required of you by what might be called "intentional power"?
You see, consciousness thinks it's running the shop. But it's a secondary organ of a total human being, and it must not put itself in control.
All religions have been true for their time.
The lower three centres are not to be refuted but transcended, when they become subject to and servant to the heart.
How can we be terrified by a dream?
And intense experience of mystery is what one has to regard as the ultimate religious experience.
When you can get rid of fear and desire and just get back to where you're becoming, you've hit the spot.