Dream is personalized myth, myth is depersonalized dream; both myth and dream are symbolic in the same general way of the dynamics of the psyche. But in the dream the forms are quirked by the peculiar troubles of the dreamer, whereas in myth the problem and solutions shown are directly valid for all mankind.

In marriage you are not sacrificing yourself to the other person. You are sacrificing yourself to the relationship.

The world, as we know it, is coming to an end. The world as the center of the universe, the world divided from the heavens, the world bound by horizons in which love is reserved for members of the in-group: that is the world that is passing away. Apocalypse does not point to a fiery Armageddon but to the fact that our ignorance and complacency are coming to an end.

The function of artists is "the mythologization of the world."

Life has no meaning. Each of us has meaning and we bring it to life. It is a waste to be asking the question when you are the answer.

The job of an educator is to teach students to see vitality in themselves

When you follow your bliss...doors will open where you would not have thought there would be doors, and where there wouldn't be a door for anyone else.