And if there was no Fall, what then of the need for Redemption? What god was offended and by whom? Some especially touchy cave bear whose skull had been improperly enshrined?
In choosing your god, you choose your way of looking at the universe. There are plenty of Gods. Choose yours.
Do what gives you bliss.
The realms of the gods and demons – heaven, purgatory, hell – are of the substance of dreams. Myth, in this view, is the dream of the world.
What’s made up in the head is the fiction. What comes out of the heart is a myth.
Religon is misunderstood mythology.
The images of Myth are reflections of Spiritual and Depth potentialities of every one of us. Through contemplating those we evoke those powers in our own lives to operate through ourselves.
Each of us has capacities. The real trick is knowing the machinery of the boat in which you are crossing the channel.
Truth is one, the sages speak of it by many names.
The object becomes aesthetically significant when it becomes metaphysically significant.
What is a god? A god is a personification of a motivating power of a value system that functions in human life and in the universe.
Don’t do anything that isn’t play.
In the absence of an effective general mythology, each of us has his private, unrecognized, rudimentary, yet secretly potent pantheon of dreams.
What gods are there, what gods have there ever been, that were not from man’s imagination?
For if anything is capable of making a poet of a literary man, it is my hometown love of the human, the living and ordinary.
He must put aside his pride, his virtue, beauty and life and bow or submit to the absolutely intolerable.
The senses are a kind of reason. Taste, touch and smell, hearing and seeing, are not merely a means to sensation, enjoyable or otherwise, but they are also a means to knowledge – and are, indeed, your only actual means to knowledge.
A hero ventures forth from the world of common day into a region of supernatural wonder. Fabulous forces are there encountered and a decisive victory is won.
If you follow someone else’s way, you are not going to realize your potential.
When you follow your bliss a kind of track opens up, that’s always been there, waiting for you. And the life that you should be living, is the one that you will be living.