The hero, whether god or goddess, man or woman, the figure in a myth or the dreamer of a dream discovers and assimilates his opposite (his own unsuspected self) either by swallowing it or by being swallowed.

If you follow your bliss you will find a path laid out before you that has been waiting for you all along and you will begin to live the life you ought to be living.

[M]yths are not invented as stories are. Myths are inspired-they really are. They come from the same realm that dream comes from.

Myth is what we call other people's religion.

He must put aside his pride, his virtue, beauty and life and bow or submit to the absolutely intolerable.

...suddenly you hit on something that the student really responds to, you can see the eyes open and the complexion change. The life possibility has opened there. All you can say to yourself is, "I hope this child hangs on to that."

Every religion, every mythology is true in this sense: It is true as metaphorical of the human and cosmic mystery.