Wars and temper tantrums are the makeshifts of ignorance; regrets are illuminations come too late.

A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.

Mythology is not a lie, mythology is poetry, it is metaphorical. It has been well said that mythology is the penultimate truth--penultimate because the ultimate cannot be put into words. It is beyond words. Beyond images, beyond that bounding rim of the Buddhist Wheel of Becoming. Mythology pitches the mind beyond that rim, to what can be known but not told.

I always feel uncomfortable when people speak about ordinary mortals because I've never met an ordinary man, woman or child.

It is by going down into the abyss that we recover the treasures of life. Where you stumble, there lies your treasure.

All the old bindings are broken. Cosmological centers now are anywhere and everywhere. The earth is a heavenly body, most beautiful of all, and all poetry is now archaic that fails to match the wonder of this view.

Sin always finds it's root in our own selfish desires and self-gratification.