Awe is what moves us forward.

God is within you. You yourself are your creator. If you find that place in yourself from which you brought this thing about, you will be able to live with it and affirm it, perhaps even enjoy it, as your life.

Their task [creative artists], therefore, is to communicate directly from one inward world to another, in such a way that an actual shock of experience will have been rendered: not a mere statement for the information or persuasion of a brain, but an effective communication across the void of space and time from one center of consciousness to another.

I don't believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive.

Society has provided [children] no rituals by which they become members of the tribe, of the community. All children need to be twice born, to learn to function rationally in the present world, leaving childhood behind.

A sound precipitates air, then fire, then water and earth- and that's how the world becomes.

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