Mythology is composed by poets out of their insights and realizations. Mythologies are not invented; they are found. You can no more tell us what your dream is going to be tonight than we can invent a myth. Myths come from the mystical region of essential experience.

The experience of Eternity right here and now, is the function of life.

All life stinks and you must embrace that with compassion.

The departure from the world is regarded not as a fault, but as the first step into that noble path at the remotest turn of which illumination is to be won.

Life is like arriving late for a movie, having to figure out what was going on without bothering everybody with a lot of questions, and then being unexpectedly called away before you find out how it ends.

For the bliss of the deep abode is not lightly abandoned in favor of the self-scattering of the wakened state.

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