Whenever men have looked for something solid on which to found their lives, they have chosen not the facts in which the world abounds, but the myths of an immemorial imagination.
The purpose of the journey is compassion. When you have come past the pairs of opposites, you have reached compassion.
When we talk about settling the world’s problems, we’re barking up the wrong tree. The world is perfect. It’s a mess. It has always been a mess. We’re not going to change it. Our job is to straighten out our own lives.
All babies are Buddha babies.
Sin always finds its root in our own selfish desires and self-gratification.
The courage to face the trials and to bring a whole new body of possibilities into the field of interpreted experience for other people to experience – that is the hero’s deed.
If you can see your path clearly in front of you, it’s probably someone else’s.
Without passion, men are not willing to pay any price or bear any burden to set the captives free.
Follow your bliss and don’t be afraid, and door will open where you didn’t know they were going to be.
A dream is your creative vision for your life in the future. A goal is what specifically you intend to make happen. Dreams and goals should be just out of your present reach but not out of sight. Dreams and goals are coming attractions in your life.
One looks, looks long, and the world comes in.
Great Brahma from his mystic heaven groans, And all his priesthood moans.
And so Galahad decided that it would be a disgrace to set off on a quest with the other knights. Alone he would enter the dark forest where there was no path. This is the myth of The Hero’s Journey.
Freud tells us to blame our parents for all the shortcomings of our life, Marx tells us to blame the upper class of our society. But the only one to blame is oneself.
Preachers err by trying to talk people into belief; better they reveal the radiance of their own discovery.
There’s nothing militant about Jesus. I don’t read anything like that in any of the gospels. Peter drew his sword and cut off the servant’s ear, and Jesus said, “Put back thy sword, Peter.” But Peter has had his sword out and at work ever since.
A one sentence definition of mythology? Mythology is what we call someone else’s religion.
The sin of inadvertence, not being alert, not quite awake, is the sin of missing the moment of life-live with unremitting alertness.
Myth is what we call other people’s religion.
Where there is a way or path, it is someone else’s. Each of us has to find his own way.