If you want to know what a given society believes in, look at what its largest buildings are devoted to.

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

There are something like 18 billion cells in the brain alone. There are no two brains alike; there are no two hands alike; there are no two human beings alike. You can take your instructions and your guidance from others, but you must find your own path.

Follow your bliss and the universe will open doors where there were only walls.

Mythology may, in a real sense, be defined as other people's religion. And religion may, in a sense, be understood as popular misunderstanding of mythology. (8)

When everything is lost, and all seems darkness, then comes the new life and all that is needed.

Out of perfection nothing can be made. Every process involves breaking something up. The earth must be broken to bring forth life. If the seed does not die there is no plant. Bread results from the death of wheat. Life lives on lives. Our own life lives on the acts of other people. If you are lifeworthy, you can take it.