Love is exactly as strong as life.
Life is not a problem to be solved but a mystery to be lived. Follow the path that is no path, follow your bliss.
The Greeks, it will be recalled, regarded Eros, the god of love, as the eldest of the gods; but also as the youngest, born fresh and dewy-eyed in every living heart.
The mighty hero of extraordinary powers, able to lift Mount Govardhan on a finger, and to fill himself with the terrible glory of the universe, is each of us: not the physical self visible in the mirror, but the King within.
The modern hero-deed must be that of questing to bring to light again the lost Atlantis of the co-ordinated Soul.
It is not society which is to guide and save the creative hero, but precisely the reverse.
The best things cannot be told, the second best are misunderstood. After that comes civilized conversation; after that, mass indoctrination; after that, intercultural exchange.
The folktale is the primer of the picture-language of the soul.
When your mind is simply trapped by the image out there so that you never make the reference to yourself, you have misread the image.
This is all I ever wanted – to help students and artists see myth as a reflection of the one sublime adventure of life, and then to breathe new life into it.
Anything you do has a still point. When you are in that still point, you can perform maximally.
The priests used to say that faith can move mountains, and nobody believed them. Today the scientists say that they can level mountains, and nobody doubts them.
Myths are so intimately bound to culture, time, and place that unless the symbols, the metaphors, are kept alive by constant recreation through the arts, the life just slips away from them.
If you realize what the real problem is-losing yourself-you realize that this itself is the ultimate trial.
The seizure of passionate love can be, in such a context, only illicit, breaking in upon the order of one’s dutiful life in virtue as a devastating storm.
Let the world be as it is and learn to rock with the waves.
Essentially, mythologies are enormous poems that are renditions of insights, giving some sense of the marvel, the miracle and wonder of life.
What you have to do, you do with play. The universe is God’s play.
We are kept out of the Garden by our own fear and desire in relation to what we think to be the goods of our life.
The warrior’s approach is to say ‘yes’ to life: ‘yes’ to it all.