This is all I ever wanted - to help students and artists see myth as a reflection of the one sublime adventure of life, and then to breathe new life into it.

Marriage . . . is not a love affair; it is an ordeal. (92)

One of the great disadvantages of a literary or scriptural tradition like the biblical one is that a deity or context of deities becomes crystallized, petrified at a certain time and place. The deity doesn’t continue to grow, expand, or take into account new cultural forces and new realizations in the sciences, and the result is this make-believe conflict we have in our culture between science and religion.

So that's what destiny is: simply the fulfillment of the potentialites of the energies in your own system.

Follow your bliss and don't be afraid, and door will open where you didn't know they were going to be.

In choosing your god, you choose your way of looking at the universe. There are plenty of Gods. Choose yours.

God is an intelligible sphere-a sphere known to mind, not to the senses-whose center is everywhere and whose circumference nowhere.