The familiar life horizon has been outgrown: the old concepts, ideals, and emotional patterns no longer fit; the time for the passing of a threshold is at hand.

We need myths that will identify the individual not with his local group but with the planet.

Each of us has capacities. The real trick is knowing the machinery of the boat in which you are crossing the channel.

If you can see your path laid out in front of you step by step, you know it's not your path. Your own path you make with every step you take. That's why it's your path.

Myth is what we call other people's religion.

The problem in our society and in our schools is to inclulcate, without overdoing it, the notion of education, as in the Latin educere--to lead, to bring out what is in someone rather than merely to indoctrinate him/her from the outside. (89)

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