The goal is to live with God like composure on the full rush of energy, like Dionysus riding the leopard, without being torn to pieces.
The departure from the world is regarded not as a fault, but as the first step into that noble path at the remotest turn of which illumination is to be won.
Myths are clues to the spiritual potentialities of the human life.
If you are on the right path you will find that invisible hands are helping.
Perhaps some of us have to go through dark and devious ways before we can find the river of peace or the highroad to the soul’s destination.
All the old bindings are broken. Cosmological centers now are anywhere and everywhere. The earth is a heavenly body, most beautiful of all, and all poetry is now archaic that fails to match the wonder of this view.
Poetry comes out of an elite experience, the experience of people whose ears are opened to the song of the universe.
The myth does not point to a fact; the myth points beyond facts to something that informs the fact.
God is within you! You yourself are the creator. If you find that place within you from which you brought this thing about, you will be able to live with it and affirm it, perhaps even enjoy it, as your life.
Both the artist and the lover know that perfection is not loveable. It is the clumsiness of a fault that makes a person lovable.
The Navajo have that wonderful image of what they call the pollen path. The Navajo say, ‘Oh, beauty before me, beauty behind me, beauty to the right of me, beauty to the left of me, beauty above me, beauty below me, I’m on the pollen path.’
Life will always be sorrowful. We can’t change it, but we can change our attitude toward it.
He who thinks he knows, doesn’t know. He who knows that he doesn’t know, knows.
I think what we lack isn’t science, but poetry that reveals what the heart is ready to recognize.
Love is the burning point of life, and since all life is sorrowful, so is love. The stronger the love, the more the pain. Love itself is pain, you might say -the pain of being truly alive.
It has always been the prime function of mythology and rite to supply the symbols that carry the human spirit forward.
When you are on your path, and it is truly your path, doors will open for you where there were no doors for someone else.
If marriage isn’t a first priority in your life, you’re not married.
Mythology is the womb of man’s initiation to life and death.
Wisdom and foolishness are practically the same. Both are indifferent to the opinions of the world.