The experience of Eternity right here and now, is the function of 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.

If you want to find out what it means to have a society without any rituals, read the New York Times.

Dream is personalized myth, myth is depersonalized dream; both myth and dream are symbolic in the same general way of the dynamics of the psyche. But in the dream the forms are quirked by the peculiar troubles of the dreamer, whereas in myth the problem and solutions shown are directly valid for all mankind.

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

The creative act is not hanging on, but yielding to a new creative movement. Awe is what moves us forward.

The fall [of your soul] from perfection into duality...was naturally followed by the discovery of the duality of good and evil...This is the Biblical version of a myth known to many lands.