All religions are true but none are literal.
We’re not on our journey to save the world but to save ourselves. But in doing that you save the world. The influence of a vital person vitalizes.
The experience of eternity right here and now is the function of life. Heaven is not the place to have the experience; here is the place to have the experience.
Every religion is true one way or another. It is true when understood metaphorically. But when it gets stuck in its own metaphors, interpreting them as facts, then you are in trouble.
The black moment is the moment when the real message of transformation is going to come. At the darkest moment comes the light.
Myths are the world’s dreams. They are archetypal dreams and deal with great human problems. Myths and dreams come from the same place. They come from realizations of some kind that then have to find expression in symbolic form.
What we’re learning in our schools is not the wisdom of life. We’re learning technologies, we’re getting information. There’s a curious reluctance on the part of faculties to indicate the life values of their subjects.
Myth must be kept alive. The people who can keep it alive are the artists of one kind or another.
We save the world by being alive ourselves.
I always feel uncomfortable when people speak about ordinary mortals because I’ve never met an ordinary man, woman or child.
Instead of clearing his own heart the zealot tries to clear the world.
They thought that it would be a disgrace to go forth as a group. Each entered the forest at a point that he himself had chosen, where it was darkest and there was no path. If there is a path it is someone else’s path and you are not on the adventure.
Is the system going to flatten you out and deny you your humanity, or are you going to be able to make use of the system to the attainment of human purposes?
I don’t have to have faith, I have experience.
We’re so engaged in doing things to achieve purposes of outer value that we forget the inner value, the rapture that is associated with being alive, is what it is all about.
Myths are public dreams, dreams are private myths.
Computers are like Old Testament gods; lots of rules and no mercy.
How teach again, however, what has been taught correctly and incorrectly learned a thousand thousand times, throughout the millenniums of mankind’s prudent folly? That is the hero’s ultimate difficult task.
Mythology helps you to identify the mysteries of the energies pouring through you. Therein lies your eternity.
You have to learn to recognize your own depth.