What we are really living for is the experience of life, both the pain and the pleasure.

The senses are a kind of reason. Taste, touch and smell, hearing and seeing, are not merely a means to sensation, enjoyable or otherwise, but they are also a means to knowledge - and are, indeed, your only actual means to knowledge.

When people find out what it is that's ticking in them, they get straightened out.

Mythology is often defined as 'other peoples' religions', religion can be thought of as misinterpreted mythology.

The key to the Grail is compassion, 'suffering with,' feeling another's sorrow as if it were your own. The one who finds the dynamo of compassion is the one who's found the Grail.

What is a god? A god is a personification of a motivating power of a value system that functions in human life and in the universe.

Myths are stories for our search through the ages for truth, for meaning, for significance. We all need to tell our story and to understand our story. We all need to understand death and to cope with death, and we all need help in our passages from birth to live and then to death. We need for life to signify, to touch the eternal, to understand the mysterious, to find out who we are.