With the moon walk, the religious myth that sustained these notions could no longer be held. With our view of earthrise, we could see that the earth and the heavens were no longer divided but that the earth is in the heavens. (105)

It may be a species of impudence to think that the way you understand God is the way God is. (60).

Certainly Star Wars has a valid mythological perspective. It shows the state as a machine and asks, "Is the machine going to crush humanity or serve humanity?" Humanity comes not from the machine but from the heart. What I see in Star Wars is the same problem that Faust gives us:

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.

Life is without meaning. You bring the meaning to it. The meaning of life is whatever you ascribe it to be. Being alive is the meaning.

It is by going down into the abyss that we recover the treasures of life. Where you stumble, there lies your treasure.

What each must seek in his life never was on land or sea. It is something out of his own unique potentiality for experience, something that never has been and never could have been experienced by anyone else.

The big question is whether you are going to be able to say a hearty yes to your adventure.

Every religion is true one way or another. It is true when understood metaphorically. But when it gets stuck in its own metaphors, interpreting them as facts, then you are in trouble.

I don't have to have faith, I have experience.

Myths are public dreams, dreams are private myths.

The goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with Nature.

Is the system going to flatten you out and deny you your humanity, or are you going to be able to make use of the system to the attainment of human purposes?

Participate joyfully in the sorrows of the world. We cannot cure the world of sorrows, but we can choose to live in joy.

Opportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves come when life seems most challenging.

I don't believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive.

If you do follow your bliss you put yourself on a kind of track that has been there all the while, waiting for you, and the life that you ought to be living is the one you are living. Follow your bliss and don't be afraid, and doors will open where you didn't know they were going to be.

Computers are like Old Testament gods; lots of rules and no mercy.

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

Follow your bliss and the universe will open doors where there were only walls.

The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.

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

If I accept the sunshine and warmth, then I must also accept the thunder and lightning.

The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain.