The problem of making the inner meet the outer of today is, of course, the function of the artist.

If you're going to have a story, have a big story, or none at all.

We're so engaged in doing things to achieve purposes of outer value that we forget the inner value, the rapture that is associated with being alive, is what it is all about.

Mythology tells us that where you stumble, there your treasure is ... The world is a match for us, and we’re a match for the world. And where it seems most challenging lies the greatest invitation to find deeper and greater power in ourselves.

Life lives on life. This is the sense of the symbol of the Ouroboros, the serpent biting its tail. Everything that lives lives on the death of something else. Your own body will be food for something else. Anyone who denies this, anyone who holds back, is out of order. Death is an act of giving.

For we have not even to risk the adventure alone, for the heros of all time have gone before us.

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