Every hero must have the courage to be alone, to take the journey for himself.
When you follow your bliss, you begin to meet people who are in the field of your bliss, and they open the doors to you.
Dream is the personalized myth, myth the depersonalized dream.
When people find out what it is that’s ticking in them, they get straightened out.
You have to have a feeling for where you are. You’ve got only one life to live and you don’t have to live it for six people. Pay attention to it.
We are the consciousness of the earth. We are the eyes of the earth. The voice of the earth.
The world is full of people who have stopped listening to themselves.
When an idea is important to a person or culture it will find its way into imagery.
The perfect human being is uninteresting.
People forget facts, but they remember stories.
Through dreams a door is opened to mythology, since myths are of the nature of dreams, and that, as dreams arise from an inward world unknown to waking consciousness, so do myths: so, indeed, does life.
The concept of time shuts off eternity.
Man was not breathed into the earth. Man came out of the earth.
The Fates guide those who will and drag those who won’t!
The function of the artist is the mythologization of the culture and the world. In the visual arts there were two men whose work handled mythological themes in a marvelous way: Paul Klee and Pablo Picasso.
Life is but a mask worn on the face of death. And is death, then, but another mask? ‘How many can say,’ asks the Aztec poet, ‘that there is, or is not, a truth beyond?’
A myth doesn’t have to be real to be true.
There is a condescension on the part of the infinite to the mind of man. That is what looks like God.
The entire heavenly realm is within us, but to find it we have to relate to what’s outside.
This is an important point about symbols: they do not refer to historical events; they refer through historical events to spiritual or psychological principles and powers that are of yesterday, today, and tomorrow, and that are everywhere.