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...
Life has no meaning. Each of us has meaning and we bring it to life. It is a waste to be asking the question when you are the answer.
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...
Follow your bliss and doors will open where there were no doors before.
We must be willing to let go of the life we planned so as to have the life that is waiting for us.
It is by going down into the abyss that we recover the treasures of life. Where you stumble, there lies your treasure.
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...
We're so engaged in doing things to achieve purposes of outer value that we forget the inner value, the rapture that is associated with being alive, is what it is all about.
Wars and temper tantrums are the makeshifts of ignorance; regrets are illuminations come too late.
The big problem of any young person's life is to have models to suggest possibilities. Nietzsche says, 'Man is the sick animal.' Man is the animal that doesn't know what to do with itself. The mind ha...
Marshall McLuhan was right when he said that television has made a global village of the world—but he didn’t know the global village would be Beirut.
If you want to understand what's most important to a society, don't examine its art or literature, simply look at its biggest buildings.
What we're learning in our schools is not the wisdom of life. We're learning technologies, we're getting information. There's a curious reluctance on the part of faculties to indicate the life values...
We have only to follow the thread of the hero path. And where we had thought to find an abomonation, we shall find a God.And where we had thought to slay another, we shall slay ourselves.And where we...
Mythology may, in a real sense, be defined as other people's religion. And religion may, in a sense, be understood as popular misunderstanding of mythology. (8)
Life will always be sorrowful. We can't change it, but we can change our attitude toward it.
How does the ordinary person come to the transcendent? For a start, I would say, study poetry. Learn how to read a poem. You need not have the experience to get the message, or at least some indicatio...
You must give up the life you planned in order to have the life that is waiting for you.
When you are on your path, and it is truly your path, doors will open for you where there were no doors for someone else.
Where you stumble and fall, there you will find gold.