I think the person who takes a job in order to live - that is to say, for the money - has turned himself into a slave.
Life is without meaning. You bring the meaning to it. The meaning of life is whatever you ascribe it to be. Being alive is the meaning.
When you find a writer who really is saying something to you, read everything that writer has written and you will get more education and depth of understanding out of that than reading a scrap here a...
Shakespeare said that art is a mirror held up to nature. And that’s what it is. The nature is your nature, and all of these wonderful poetic images of mythology are referring to something in you. When...
Mythology is not a lie, mythology is poetry, it is metaphorical. It has been well said that mythology is the penultimate truth--penultimate because the ultimate cannot be put into words. It is beyond...
[T]here is nothing to say about life. It has no meaning. You make meaning. If you want a meaning in your life, find a meaning and bring it into your life, but life won't give you a meaning. Meaning is...
A myth is something that has never happened, but is happening all the time.
Follow your bliss. Find where it is and don't be afraid to follow it.
[Comedies], in the ancient world, were regarded as of a higher rank than tragedy, of a deeper truth, of a more difficult realization, of a sounder structure, and of a revelation more complete. The hap...
God is a metaphor for that which transcends all levels of intellectual thought. It's as simple as that.
What each must seek in his life never was on land or sea. It is something out of his own unique potentiality for experience, something that never has been and never could have been experienced by anyo...
The psychological dangers through which earlier generations were guided by the symbols and spiritual exercises of their mythological and religious inheritance, we today (in so far as we are unbeliever...
How to get rid of ego as dictator and turn it into messenger and servant and scout, to be in your service, is the trick.
Whether you call someone a hero or a monster is all relative to where the focus of your consciousness may be.
One great thing about growing old is that nothing is going to lead to anything. Everything is of the moment.
In marriage you are not sacrificing yourself to the other person. You are sacrificing yourself to the relationship.
You enter the forestat the darkest point,where there is no path.Where there is a way or path,it is someone else's path.You are not on your own path.If you follow someone else's way,you are not going t...
We need myths that will identify the individual not with his local group but with the planet.
Sit in a room and read--and read and read. And read the right books by the right people. Your mind is brought onto that level, and you have a nice, mild, slow-burning rapture all the time.
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.