Just as anyone who listens to the muse will hear, you can write out of your own intention or out of inspiration. There is such a thing. It comes up and talks. And those who have heard deeply the rhythms and hymns of the gods, can recite those hymns in such a way that the gods will be attracted.

How do you find the divine power in yourself? The word enthusiasm means 'filled with a god,' so what makes you enthusiastic? Follow it. So I have a little word: follow your bliss. The bliss is the message of God to yourself. That's where your life is.

The call to adventure is the point in a person’s life when they are first given notice that everything is going to change, whether they know it or not.

People who don't have a concept of the whole can do very unfortunate things.

We keep thinking of deity as a kind of fact, somewhere; God as a fact. God is simply our own notion of something that is symbolic of transcendence and mystery. The mystery is what’s important.

Myth must be kept alive. The people who can keep it alive are the artists of one kind or another.

Economics and politics are the governing powers of life today, and that's why everything is so screwy.