Mythological symbols touch and exhilarate centers of life beyond the reach of vocabularies of reason and coercion.

The adventure of the hero is the adventure of being alive

People forget facts, but they remember stories.

Find a place inside where there's joy, and the joy will burn out the pain.

There is an Indian fable of three beings who drank from a river: one was a god, and he drank ambrosia; one was a man, and he drank water; and one was a demon, and he drank filth. What you get is a function of your own consciousness.

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

There have been systems of religion where the mother is the prime parent, the source, and she's really a more immediate parent than the father, because one is born from the mother...so that the image of the woman is the image of the world.