To whatever degree he may have desacralized the world, the man who has made his choice in favor of a profane life never succeeds in completely doing away with religious behavior.

The great cosmic illusion is a hierophany.... One is devoured by Time, not because one lives in Time, but because one believes in its reality, and therefore forgets or despises eternity.

Man becomes aware of the Sacred because it manifests itself, shows itself, as something wholly different from the Profane.

As long as you have not grasped that you have to die to grow, you are a troubled guest on the dark earth".

The way towards 'wisdom' or towards 'freedom' is the way towards your inner being. This is the simplest definition of metaphysics.

Light does not come from light, but from darkness.

The primitive magician, the medicine man or shaman is not only a sick man, he is above all, a sick man who has been cured, who has succeeded in curing himself.

The Experience of Sacred Space makes possible the founding of the world: where the sacred Manifests itself in space, the real unveils itself, the world comes into existence.

If we pay no attention to it, time does not exist.

It would be frightening to think that in all the cosmos, which is so harmonious, so complete and equal to itself, that only human life is happening randomly, that only one's destiny lacks meaning.

I don't want to be mediocre, this is the fear of my soul and my body.

When you surround an army, leave an outlet free. Do not press a desperate foe too hard.

Leaders look out for people who can criticize them constructively and rebuke them reasonably.

All money does with an empty heart is allow you to be miserable in style.

... the sort of smiles used at weddings, turned on very carefully to half pressure to prevent them wearing out.

Order is manifestly maintained in the universe... governed by the sovereign will of God.

Peace comes not from the absence of trouble, but from the presence of God.

A breakthrough in machine learning would be worth ten Microsofts.

Integrity is the core of our character. Without integrity we have a weak foundation upon which to build other Christ-like characteristics.

I want to continue to do a good job for my constituents, my party doesn't want me to resign.

I live in the realm of romantic possibility.