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

If there were already a path, it would have to be someone else's; the whole point is to find your own way.

The function of the society is to cultivate the individual. It is not the function of the individual to support society.

The Deadheads are doing the dance of life and this I would say is the answer to the atom bomb.

Myths are stories for our search through the ages for truth, for meaning, for significance. We all need to tell our story and to understand our story. We all need to understand death and to cope with death, and we all need help in our passages from birth to live and then to death. We need for life to signify, to touch the eternal, to understand the mysterious, to find out who we are.

The myth is the public dream and the dream is the private myth.

The problem in our society and in our schools is to inclulcate, without overdoing it, the notion of education, as in the Latin educere--to lead, to bring out what is in someone rather than merely to indoctrinate him/her from the outside. (89)