Sin always finds it's root in our own selfish desires and self-gratification.

Without passion, men are not willing to pay any price or bear any burden to set the captives free.

One cannot predict the next mythology any more than one can predict tonight's dream; for a mythology is not an ideology. It is not something projected from the brain, but something experienced from the heart, from recognition of identities behind or within the appearances of nature, perceiving with love a 'thou' where there would otherwise have been only an 'it.'

The function of ritual, as I understand it, is to give form to human life, not in the way of a mere surface arrangement, but in depth.

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.

Every religion, every mythology is true in this sense: It is true as metaphorical of the human and cosmic mystery.

We are having experiences all the time which may on occasion render some sense of this, a little intuition of where your bliss is. Grab it. No one can tell you what it is going to be. You have to learn to recognize your own depth.