Any god who can invent hell is no candidate for the Salvation Army.
A temple is a landscape of the soul.
There is what I would call the hero journey, the night sea journey, the hero quest, where the individual is going to bring forth in his life something that was never beheld before.
Breaking out is following your bliss pattern, quitting the old place, starting your hero journey, following your bliss. You throw off yesterday as the snake sheds its skin.
A hero is not a champion of things become, but of things becoming; the dragon to be slain by him is precisely the monster of the status quo.
Any disaster you can survive is an improvement in your character, your stature, and your life.
To find your own way is to follow your bliss.
Every hero must have the courage to be alone, to take the journey for himself.
When you follow your bliss, you begin to meet people who are in the field of your bliss, and they open the doors to you.
Dream is the personalized myth, myth the depersonalized dream.
When people find out what it is that’s ticking in them, they get straightened out.
You have to have a feeling for where you are. You’ve got only one life to live and you don’t have to live it for six people. Pay attention to it.
We are the consciousness of the earth. We are the eyes of the earth. The voice of the earth.
The world is full of people who have stopped listening to themselves.
When an idea is important to a person or culture it will find its way into imagery.
The perfect human being is uninteresting.
People forget facts, but they remember stories.
Through dreams a door is opened to mythology, since myths are of the nature of dreams, and that, as dreams arise from an inward world unknown to waking consciousness, so do myths: so, indeed, does life.
The concept of time shuts off eternity.
Man was not breathed into the earth. Man came out of the earth.