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

What we are really living for is the experience of life, both the pain and the pleasure.

The place to find is within yourself.

There seem to be only two kinds of people: Those who think that metaphors are facts, and those who know that they are not facts. Those who know they are not facts are what we call "atheists," and those who think they are facts are "religious." Which group really gets the message?

Wherever the poetry of myth is interpreted as biography, history, or science, it is killed.

[Comedies], in the ancient world, were regarded as of a higher rank than tragedy, of a deeper truth, of a more difficult realization, of a sounder structure, and of a revelation more complete. The happy ending of the fairy tale, the myth, and the divine comedy of the soul, is to be read, not as a contradiction, but as a transcendence of the universal tragedy of man. ...Tragedy is the shattering of the forms and of our attachment to the forms...

The black moment is the moment when the real message of transformation is going to come. At the darkest moment comes the light.