The best we can do is lean towards the light.
We need myths that will identify the individual not with his local group but with the planet.
Every myth is psychologically symbolic. Its narratives and images are to be read, therefore, not literally, but as metaphors.
Follow your inner heart and the world moves in and helps.
Follow your bliss. The heroic life is living the individual adventure.
We keep thinking of deity as a kind of fact, somewhere; God as a fact. God is simply our own notion of something that is symbolic of transcendence and mystery. The mystery is what’s important.
Whatever the hell happens, say, ‘This is what I need.’
Follow your bliss. The heroic life is living the individual adventure. There is no security in following the call to adventure. Nothing is exciting if you know what the outcome is going to be.
If you want the whole thing, the gods will give it to you. But you must be ready for it.
There’s always the possibility of a fiasco. But there’s also the possibility of bliss.
At such moments, you realize that you and the other are, in fact, one. It’s a big realization. Survival is the second law of life. The first is that we are all one.
You’ve got to find the force inside you.
If you are to advance, all fixed ideas must go.
The god you worship is the one you’re capable of becoming.
You know the rule: If you are falling, dive. Do the thing that has to be done.
Where is your bliss station? You have to try to find it.
No tribal rite has yet been recorded which attempts to keep winter from descending; on the contrary: the rites all prepare the community to endure, together with the rest of nature, the season of the terrible cold.
Marriage is not a simple love affair, it’s an ordeal, and the ordeal is the sacrifice of ego to a relationship in which two have become one.
The world is full of people who have stopped listening to themselves or have listened only to their neighbors to learn what they ought to do, how they ought to behave, and what the values are they should be living for.
At the darkest moment comes the light.