I think what we lack isn't science, but poetry that reveals what the heart is ready to recognize

Myths are public dreams; dreams are private myths. By finding your own dream and following it through, it will lead you to the myth-world in which you live. But just as in dream, the subject and object, though they seem to be separate, are really the same.

The dreamer and his dream are the same...the powers personified in a dream are these that move the world.

The best we can do is lean towards the light.

Mythology is composed by poets out of their insights and realizations. Mythologies are not invented; they are found. You can no more tell us what your dream is going to be tonight than we can invent a myth. Myths come from the mystical region of essential experience.

The purpose of the journey is compassion. When you have come past the pairs of opposites, you have reached compassion.

The function of ritual, as I understand it, is to give form to human life, not in the way of a mere surface arrangement, but in depth.