What's made up in the head is the fiction. What comes out of the heart is a myth.

It is within you that the divine lives.

How teach again, however, what has been taught correctly and incorrectly learned a thousand thousand times, throughout the millenniums of mankind's prudent folly? That is the hero's ultimate difficult task.

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

I don't believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive.

The fall [of your soul] from perfection into duality...was naturally followed by the discovery of the duality of good and evil...This is the Biblical version of a myth known to many lands.

He must put aside his pride, his virtue, beauty and life and bow or submit to the absolutely intolerable.