Every religion is true one way or another. It is true when understood metaphorically. But when it gets stuck in its own metaphors, interpreting them as facts, then you are in trouble.

There's always the possibility of a fiasco. But there's also the possibility of bliss.

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

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

There is what I would call the hero journey, the night sea journey, the hero quest, where the individual is going to bring forth in his life something that was never beheld before.

One looks, looks long, and the world comes in.

God is within you. You yourself are your creator. If you find that place in yourself from which you brought this thing about, you will be able to live with it and affirm it, perhaps even enjoy it, as your life.