When you translate the Bible with excessive literalism, you demythologize it. The possibility of a convincing reference to the individual's own spiritual experience is lost. (111)

If you go to a master to study and learn the techniques, you diligently follow all the instructions the master puts upon you. But then comes the time for using the rules in your own way and not being bound by them....You can actually forget the rules because they have been assimilated. You are an artist. Your own innocence now is of one who has become an artist, who has been, as it were, transmuted.... You can't have creativity unless you leave behind the bounded, the fixed, all the rules.

Myth is much more important and true than history. History is just journalism and you know how reliable that is.

The process of nature cannot be evil.

The dreamer and his dream are the same...the powers personified in a dream are these that move the world.

[M]yths are not invented as stories are. Myths are inspired-they really are. They come from the same realm that dream comes from.

Out of perfection nothing can be made. Every process involves breaking something up.