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What we are really living for is the experience of life, both the pain and the pleasure.

If you want the whole thing, the gods will give it to you. But you must be ready for it.

If you really want to help this world, what you will have to teach is how to live in it.

The object becomes aesthetically significant when it becomes metaphysically significant.

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

Privation and suffering alone open the mind to all that is hidden to others. (Igjugarjuk)

‎"Make your god transparent to the transcendent, and it doesn't matter what his name is."

It is not society which is to guide and save the creative hero, but precisely the reverse.

A one sentence definition of mythology? Mythology is what we call someone else's religion.

What gods are there, what gods have there ever been, that were not from man's imagination?

Passion will move men beyond themselves, beyond their shortcomings, beyond their failures.

If you follow your bliss...the life that you ought to be living is the one you are living.

We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us.

Wherever the poetry of myth is interpreted as biography, history, or science, it is killed.

The entire heavenly realm is within us, but to find it we have to relate to what's outside.

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

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

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

Once you know the difference between right and wrong, you have lots fewer decisions to make.

A sound precipitates air, then fire, then water and earth- and that's how the world becomes.

We are the consciousness of the earth. We are the eyes of the earth. The voice of the earth.

Life will always be sorrowful. We can't change it, but we can change our attitude toward it.

The very cave you are afraid to enter turns out to be the source of what you are looking for.

We need myths that will identify the individual not with his local group but with the planet.

Any disaster you can survive is an improvement in your character, your stature, and your life

I think it's important to live life with a knowledge of its mystery, and of your own mystery.

The Deadheads are doing the dance of life and this I would say is the answer to the atom bomb.

Eternity is not the hereafter...this is it. If you don't get it here you won't get it anywhere.

Anything you do has a still point. When you are in that still point, you can perform maximally.

For people who are really alive to have life awakened is more important than to get a sandwich.

I think what we lack isn't science, but poetry that reveals what the heart is ready to recognize

For we have not even to risk the adventure alone, for the heros of all time have gone before us.

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

Myth must be kept alive. The people who can keep it alive are the artists of one kind or another.

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

The myth does not point to a fact; the myth points beyond facts to something that informs the fact

Wars and temper tantrums are the makeshifts of ignorance; regrets are illuminations come too late.

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

It's only when a man tames his own demons that he becomes the king of himself if not of the world.

Without passion, men are not willing to pay any price or bear any burden to set the captives free.

What am I? Am I the bulb that carries the light, or am I the light of which the bulb is a vehicle?

The problem of making the inner meet the outer of today is, of course, the function of the artist.

You've got to say yes to this miracle of life as it is, not on condition that it follow your rules.

There is a God inside my PC. An Old-Testament God with lots of arbitrary rules and utterly no mercy.

The function of (heroic) symbols is to give you a sense of Aha! Yes, I know what it is, it's myself.

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

It takes courage to do what you want. Other people have a lot of plans for you... Follow your bliss.

Poets are simply those who have made a profession and a lifestyle of being in touch with their bliss.

If you want to find out what it means to have a society without any rituals, read the New York Times.

There is a condescension on the part of the infinite to the mind of man. That is what looks like God.

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