An old Apache storyteller reminds us.
What the artist must render is a living moment somehow, a living moment actually in action or an inward experience.
The conquest of fear yields the courage of life. That is the cardinal initiation of every heroic adventure – fearlessness and achievement.
You don’t have to believe that there was a King Arthur to get the significance of those stories, but Christians say we have to believe there was a Christ, or the miracles don’t make sense.
The adventure evoked a quality of his character that he didn’t know he possessed.
The best advise is to take it all as if it had been your intention.
The ultimate dragon is within you, it is your ego clamping you down.
You’ve got to say yes to this miracle of life as it is, not on condition that it follow your rules.
Vegetarians are people who cannot hear tomatos screaming.
The function of the society is to cultivate the individual. It is not the function of the individual to support society.
The last act in the biography of the hero is that of the death or departure.
The mind of man, cleansed of secondary and merely temporal concerns, beholds with the radiance of a cleansed mirror a reflection of the rational mind of God.
I should have said, ‘Follow your blisters.’
Mythology is often defined as ‘other peoples’ religions’, religion can be thought of as misinterpreted mythology.
Apocalypse does not point to a fiery Armageddon, but to our ignorance and complacency coming to an end.
Making the inner meet the outer is the function of the artist.
What am I? Am I the bulb that carries the light, or am I the light of which the bulb is a vehicle?
Man actually needs the striving and struggling for some goal worthy of him.
If you want to see what a society really believes in, look at what the biggest buildings on the horizon are dedicated to.
Participate joyfully in the sorrows of life.