As a white candle / In a holy place, / So is the beauty / Of an aged face

The myth does not point to a fact; the myth points beyond facts to something that informs the fact

Eternity is not the hereafter...this is it. If you don't get it here you won't get it anywhere.

Sacred space and sacred time and something joyous to do is all we need. Almost anything then becomes a continuous and increasing joy. What you have to do, you do with play. I think a good way to conceive of sacred space is as a playground. If what you're doing seems like play, you are in it. But you can't play with my toys, you have to have your own. Your life should have yielded some. Older people play with life experiences and realizations or with thoughts they like to entertain. In my case, I have books I like to read that don't lead anywhere.

The myths and folk tales of the whole world make clear that the refusal is essentially a refusal to give up what one takes to be one's own interest. The future is regarded not in terms of an unremitting series of deaths and births, but as though one's present system of ideals, virtues, goals, and advantages were to be fixed and made secure.

Man actually needs the striving and struggling for some goal worthy of him.

Mythology is often defined as 'other peoples' religions', religion can be thought of as misinterpreted mythology.