Follow your bliss. The heroic life is living the individual adventure.

Every myth is psychologically symbolic. Its narratives and images are to be read, therefore, not literally, but as metaphors.

We're not on our journey to save the world but to save ourselves. But in doing that you save the world. The influence of a vital person vitalizes.

I think of compassion as the fundamental religious experience and, unless that is there, you have nothing.

Life is a guy trying to play a violin solo in public, while learning the music and his instrument at the same time.

The adventure of the hero is the adventure of being alive

Eternity isn't some later time. Eternity isn't a long time. Eternity has nothing to do with time. Eternity is that dimension of here and now which thinking and time cuts out. This is it. And if you don't get it here, you won't get it anywhere. And the experience of eternity right here and now is the function of life.