Mythology is often defined as 'other peoples' religions', religion can be thought of as misinterpreted mythology.

The function of the society is to cultivate the individual. It is not the function of the individual to support society.

Where you stumble and fall, there you will find gold.

Without passion, men are not willing to pay any price or bear any burden to set the captives free.

When I was in India I met and conversed briefly with Shri Atmananda Guru of Trivandrum, and the question he gave me to ponder was this: 'Where are you between two thoughts?

The unfolding through time of all things from one is the simple message, finally, of every one of the creation myths reproduced in the pages of these volumes-including that of our contemporary biological view, which becomes an effective mythic image the moment we recognize its own inner mystery. By the same magic, every god that is dead can be conjured again to life, as any fragment of rock from a hillside, set respectfully in a garden, will arrest the eye.

‎"Make your god transparent to the transcendent, and it doesn't matter what his name is."