You’ve got to say yes to this miracle of life as it is, not on condition that it follow your rules.
Vegetarians are people who cannot hear tomatos screaming.
The function of the society is to cultivate the individual. It is not the function of the individual to support society.
The last act in the biography of the hero is that of the death or departure.
The mind of man, cleansed of secondary and merely temporal concerns, beholds with the radiance of a cleansed mirror a reflection of the rational mind of God.
I should have said, ‘Follow your blisters.’
Mythology is often defined as ‘other peoples’ religions’, religion can be thought of as misinterpreted mythology.
Apocalypse does not point to a fiery Armageddon, but to our ignorance and complacency coming to an end.
Making the inner meet the outer is the function of the artist.
What am I? Am I the bulb that carries the light, or am I the light of which the bulb is a vehicle?
Man actually needs the striving and struggling for some goal worthy of him.
If you want to see what a society really believes in, look at what the biggest buildings on the horizon are dedicated to.
Participate joyfully in the sorrows of life.
Any god who can invent hell is no candidate for the Salvation Army.
A temple is a landscape of the soul.
There is what I would call the hero journey, the night sea journey, the hero quest, where the individual is going to bring forth in his life something that was never beheld before.
Breaking out is following your bliss pattern, quitting the old place, starting your hero journey, following your bliss. You throw off yesterday as the snake sheds its skin.
A hero is not a champion of things become, but of things becoming; the dragon to be slain by him is precisely the monster of the status quo.
Any disaster you can survive is an improvement in your character, your stature, and your life.
To find your own way is to follow your bliss.