Enlarge the pupil of the eye, so that the body with its attendant personality will no longer obstruct the view. Immortality is then experienced as a present fact.

My writing is of a very different kind from anything I've heard about. All this mythological material is out there, a big gathering of stuff, and I have been reading it for some forty- or fifty-odd years. There are various ways of handling that. The most common is to put the material together and publish a scholarly book about it. But when I'm writing, I try to get a sense of an experiential relationship to the material. In fact, I can't write unless that happens ... I don't write unless the stuff is really working on me, and my selection of material depends on what works.

If you follow someone else's way, you are not going to realize your potential.

Any god who can invent hell is no candidate for the Salvation Army

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

The last act in the biography of the hero is that of the death or departure.

Every hero must have the courage to be alone, to take the journey for himself.