The very cave you are afraid to enter turns out to be the source of what you are looking for.

It has always been the prime function of mythology and rite to supply the symbols that carry the human spirit forward.

Nothing is exciting if you know what the outcome is going to be.

When we talk about settling the world's problems, we're barking up the wrong tree. The world is perfect. It's a mess. It has always been a mess. We're not going to change it. Our job is to straighten out our own lives.

At first you might find that nothing happens there. But if you have a sacred space and use it, eventually something will happen. Your sacred space is where you find yourself again and again.

Myths are so intimately bound to culture, time, and place that unless the symbols, the metaphors, are kept alive by constant recreation through the arts, the life just slips away from them.

The fates lead him who will; him who won't they drag.