What if we choose not to do the things we are supposed to do? The principal gain is a sense of an authentic act - and an authentic life. It may be a short one, but it is an authentic one, and that's a lot better than those short lives full of boredom. The principal loss is security. Another is respect from the community. But you gain the respect of another community, the one that is worth having the respect of.

Myths are clues to the spiritual potentialities of the human life.

Life is not a problem to be solved but a mystery to be lived. Follow the path that is no path, follow your bliss.

Love is exactly as strong as life.

If you follow your bliss...the life that you ought to be living is the one you are living.

I don't believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive.

I think of mythology as a function of biology; the energies of the body are the energies that move the imagination. These energies are the source, then, of mythological imagery; in a mythological organization of symbols, the conflicts between the different organic impulses within the body are resolved and harmonized. You might say mythology is a formula for the harmonization of the energies of life.