Nothing can happen to you that is not positive. Even though it looks and feels at the moment like a negative crisis, it is not. The crisis throws you back, and when you are required to exhibit strength, it comes.
What we are really living for is the experience of life, both the pain and the pleasure.
Poets and artists who speak of the mystery are rare.
The role of the artist I now understood as that of revealing through the world-surfaces the implicit forms of the soul, and the great agent to assist the artist was the myth.
Every religion, every mythology is true in this sense: It is true as metaphorical of the human and cosmic mystery.
We know that Jesus could not have ascended to heaven because there is no physical heaven anywhere in the universe. Even ascending at the speed of light, Jesus would still be in the galaxy.
One of our problems today is that we are not well acquainted with the literature of the spirit. We re interested in the news of the day and the problems of the hour.
Every people is a chosen people in its own mind. And it is rather amusing that their name for themselves usually means mankind.
Economics and politics are the governing powers of life today, and that’s why everything is so screwy.
The perfect human being is uninteresting-the Buddha who leaves the world, you know. It is the imperfections of life that are lovable.
A woman is a vehicle of life. Life has overtaken her. Woman is what it is all about-the giving of birth and the giving of nourishment.
Mythologies, in other words, mythologies and religions are great poems and, when recognized as such, point infallibly through things and events to the ubiquity of a.
Chief Seattle, of the Indians that inhabited the Seattle area, wrote a wonderful paper that has to do with putting oneself in tune with the universe. He said.
An old Apache storyteller reminds us.
What the artist must render is a living moment somehow, a living moment actually in action or an inward experience.
The conquest of fear yields the courage of life. That is the cardinal initiation of every heroic adventure – fearlessness and achievement.
You don’t have to believe that there was a King Arthur to get the significance of those stories, but Christians say we have to believe there was a Christ, or the miracles don’t make sense.
The adventure evoked a quality of his character that he didn’t know he possessed.
The best advise is to take it all as if it had been your intention.
The ultimate dragon is within you, it is your ego clamping you down.