I think what we lack isn’t science, but poetry that reveals what the heart is ready to recognize.
Love is the burning point of life, and since all life is sorrowful, so is love. The stronger the love, the more the pain. Love itself is pain, you might say -the pain of being truly alive.
It has always been the prime function of mythology and rite to supply the symbols that carry the human spirit forward.
When you are on your path, and it is truly your path, doors will open for you where there were no doors for someone else.
If marriage isn’t a first priority in your life, you’re not married.
Mythology is the womb of man’s initiation to life and death.
Wisdom and foolishness are practically the same. Both are indifferent to the opinions of the world.
We have today to learn to get back into accord with the wisdom of nature and realize again our brotherhood with the animals and with the water and the sea.
God is an intelligible sphere-a sphere known to mind, not to the senses-whose center is everywhere and whose circumference nowhere.
For we do not even have to risk the adventure alone, for the heroes of all time have gone before us...
The best things cannot be told because they transcend thought. The second best are misunderstood because they are the thoughts that are supposed to refer to that which cannot be thought about. The third best are what we talk about.
The familiar life horizon has been outgrown: the old concepts, ideals, and emotional patterns no longer fit; the time for the passing of a threshold is at hand.
The influence of a vital being vitalizes.
Every story you tell is your own story.
Everything starts with a story.
If we fix on the old, we get stuck.
Hell is life drying up.
When before the beauty of a sunset or a mountain, you pause and exclaim, ‘Ah,’ you are participating in divinity.
The adventure is always and everywhere a passage beyond the veil of the known into the unknown; the powers that watch at the boundary are dangerous; to deal with them is risky; yet for anyone with competence and courage the danger fades.
The one radiance shines through all things.