[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...
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.
A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.
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...
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...
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...
Whether you call someone a hero or a monster is all relative to where the focus of your consciousness may be.
We need myths that will identify the individual not with his local group but with the planet.
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...
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.
Modern romance, like Greek tragedy, celebrates the mystery of dismemberment, which is life in time. The happy ending is justly scorned as a misrepresentation; for the world, as we know it, as we have...
Marriage . . . is not a love affair; it is an ordeal. (92)
In marriage you are not sacrificing yourself to the other person. You are sacrificing yourself to the relationship.
Follow your bliss. Find where it is and don't be afraid to follow it.
You have to learn to recognize your own depths.
All religions are true but none are literal.
Writer’s block results from too much head. Cut off your head. Pegasus, poetry, was born of Medusa when her head was cut off. You have to be reckless when writing. Be as crazy as your conscience allows...
The multitude of men and women choose the less adventurous way of the comparatively unconscious civic and tribal routines. But these seekers, too, are saved—by virtue of the inherited symbolic aids of...
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.