I think it’s important to live life with a knowledge of its mystery, and of your own mystery.
Survival is the second law of life. The first is that we are all one.
Art is the clothing of a revelation.
The dance is the highest symbol of life itself.
What each must seek in his life never was on land or sea. It is something out of his own unique potentiality for experience, something that never has been and never could have been experienced by anyone else.
Now, when Luke Skywalker unmasks his father, he is taking off the machine role that the father has played. The father was the uniform. That is power, the state role.
And if there was no Fall, what then of the need for Redemption? What god was offended and by whom? Some especially touchy cave bear whose skull had been improperly enshrined?
The quest for fire occurred not because anyone knew what the practical uses for fire would be, but because it was fascinating.
In choosing your god, you choose your way of looking at the universe. There are plenty of Gods. Choose yours.
Do what gives you bliss.
The realms of the gods and demons – heaven, purgatory, hell – are of the substance of dreams. Myth, in this view, is the dream of the world.
What’s made up in the head is the fiction. What comes out of the heart is a myth.
Religon is misunderstood mythology.
The images of Myth are reflections of Spiritual and Depth potentialities of every one of us. Through contemplating those we evoke those powers in our own lives to operate through ourselves.
Each of us has capacities. The real trick is knowing the machinery of the boat in which you are crossing the channel.
Truth is one, the sages speak of it by many names.
The object becomes aesthetically significant when it becomes metaphysically significant.
What is a god? A god is a personification of a motivating power of a value system that functions in human life and in the universe.
Don’t do anything that isn’t play.
In the absence of an effective general mythology, each of us has his private, unrecognized, rudimentary, yet secretly potent pantheon of dreams.