You and I are all as much continuous with the physical universe as a wave is continuous with the ocean.

A myth is an image in terms of which we try to make sense of the world.

The difficulty for most of us in the modern world is that the old-fashioned idea of God has become incredible or implausible.

The mundane and the sacred are one and the same.

There is no way of making a hedge grow like pruning it. There is no way of making sex interesting like repressing it.

Life and love generate effort, but effort will not generate them. Faith-in life, in other people, and in oneself-is the attitude of allowing the spontaneous to be spontaneous, in its own way and in its own time.

Lack of love for the vegetative, subtle, cthonic, pagan, and sexy aspect of the world means death.