I don't have faith, I have experience.

The psyche is the inward experience of the human body, which is essentially the same in all human beings, with the same organs, the same instincts, the same impulses, the same conflicts, the same fears. Out of this common ground have come what Jung has called the archetypes, which are the common ideas of myths.

The hero, whether god or goddess, man or woman, the figure in a myth or the dreamer of a dream discovers and assimilates his opposite (his own unsuspected self) either by swallowing it or by being swallowed.

The hero, therefore, is the man or woman who has been able to battle past his personal and local historical limitations.

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.

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

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