The Fates guide those who will and drag those who won’t!
The function of the artist is the mythologization of the culture and the world. In the visual arts there were two men whose work handled mythological themes in a marvelous way: Paul Klee and Pablo Picasso.
Life is but a mask worn on the face of death. And is death, then, but another mask? ‘How many can say,’ asks the Aztec poet, ‘that there is, or is not, a truth beyond?’
A myth doesn’t have to be real to be true.
There is a condescension on the part of the infinite to the mind of man. That is what looks like God.
The entire heavenly realm is within us, but to find it we have to relate to what’s outside.
This is an important point about symbols: they do not refer to historical events; they refer through historical events to spiritual or psychological principles and powers that are of yesterday, today, and tomorrow, and that are everywhere.
Love is exactly as strong as life.
Life is not a problem to be solved but a mystery to be lived. Follow the path that is no path, follow your bliss.
The Greeks, it will be recalled, regarded Eros, the god of love, as the eldest of the gods; but also as the youngest, born fresh and dewy-eyed in every living heart.
The mighty hero of extraordinary powers, able to lift Mount Govardhan on a finger, and to fill himself with the terrible glory of the universe, is each of us: not the physical self visible in the mirror, but the King within.
The modern hero-deed must be that of questing to bring to light again the lost Atlantis of the co-ordinated Soul.
It is not society which is to guide and save the creative hero, but precisely the reverse.
The best things cannot be told, the second best are misunderstood. After that comes civilized conversation; after that, mass indoctrination; after that, intercultural exchange.
The folktale is the primer of the picture-language of the soul.
When your mind is simply trapped by the image out there so that you never make the reference to yourself, you have misread the image.
This is all I ever wanted – to help students and artists see myth as a reflection of the one sublime adventure of life, and then to breathe new life into it.
Anything you do has a still point. When you are in that still point, you can perform maximally.
The priests used to say that faith can move mountains, and nobody believed them. Today the scientists say that they can level mountains, and nobody doubts them.
If you realize what the real problem is-losing yourself-you realize that this itself is the ultimate trial.