Until the culture recognizes the legitimacy of growing down, each person in the culture struggles blindly to make sense of the darkness that the soul requires to deepen into life.

Follow the lead of your symptoms, for there’s usually a myth in the mess, and a mess is an expression of soul.

I don't think anything changes until ideas change. The usual American viewpoint is to believe that something is wrong with the person.

I have found that the person with a sense of story built in from childhood is in better shape than one who has not had stories . . One knows what stories can do, how they can make up worlds and transpose existence into these worlds. . . .One learns that worlds are made by words and not only by hammers and wires.

We are human less by virtue of our ideal goals than by the vice of our inferiority.

The new age self-help phenomenon is pretty mushy, but it's also very American. Our history is filled with traveling preachers and quack medicine and searches for the soul. I don't see this as a new thing. I think the new age is part of a phenomenon that's been there all along.

We can't change anything until we get some fresh ideas, until we begin to see things differently.