Mythology is composed by poets out of their insights and realizations. Mythologies are not invented they are found. You can no more tell us what your dream is going to be tonight than we can invent a...
Myths are public dreams, dreams are private myths.
The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.
Regrets are illuminations come too late.
We must be willing to get rid ofthe life we’ve planned, so as to havethe life that is waiting for us.The old skin has to be shedbefore the new one can come.If we fix on the old, we get stuck.When we h...
The look that one directs at things, both outward and inward, as an artist, is not the same as that with which one would regard the same as a man, but at once colder and more passionate. As a man, you...
I don't think there is any such thing as an ordinary mortal. Everybody has his own possibility of rapture in the experience of life. All he has to do is recognize it and then cultivate it and get goin...
Your life is the fruit of your own doing. You have no one to blame but yourself.
Every act has both good and evil results. Every act in life yields pairs of opposites in its results. The best we can do is lean toward the light, toward the harmonious relationships that come from co...
Awe is what moves us forward.
The first step to the knowledge of the wonder and mystery of life is the recognition of the monstrous nature of the earthly human realm as well as its glory, the realization that this is just how it i...
Not all who hesitate are lost. The psyche has many secrets in reserve. And these are not disclosed unless required.
Myth is much more important and true than history. History is just journalism and you know how reliable that is.
We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us.
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.
Opportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves come when life seems most challenging.
in America we have people from all kinds of backgrounds, all in a cluster, together, and consequently law has become very important in this country. Lawyers and law are what hold us together. There is...
If you want to change the world, change the metaphor.
With the moon walk, the religious myth that sustained these notions could no longer be held. With our view of earthrise, we could see that the earth and the heavens were no longer divided but that the...
Marriage . . . is not a love affair; it is an ordeal. (92)