The call to adventure is the point in a person’s life when they are first given notice that everything is going to change, whether they know it or not.

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

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

The real important function of the church is to present the symbol, to perform the rite, to let you behold this divine message in such a way that you are capable of experiencing it. What the relationship of the Father and the Son and the Holy Ghost to each other might be, in technical terms, is not half important as you, the celebrant, feeling the Virgin Birth within you, the birth of the mystic, mythic being that is your own spiritual life.

The person who thinks he has found the ultimate truth is wrong.

Questing... is not an ego trip; it is an adventure to bring into fulfillment your gift to the world, which is yourself.

[T]he experience of mystery comes not from expecting it but through yielding all your programs, because your programs are based on fear and desire. Drop them and the radiance comes. (16)