I always feel uncomfortable when people speak about ordinary mortals because I've never met an ordinary man, woman or child.

The senses are a kind of reason. Taste, touch and smell, hearing and seeing, are not merely a means to sensation, enjoyable or otherwise, but they are also a means to knowledge - and are, indeed, your only actual means to knowledge.

Every myth is psychologically symbolic. Its narratives and images are to be read, therefore, not literally, but as metaphors.

If you want the whole thing, the gods will give it to you. But you must be ready for it.

Sin always finds it's root in our own selfish desires and self-gratification.

People say that what we're all seeking is a meaning for life. I don't think that's what we're really seeking. I think what we're seeking is an experience of being alive, so that our life experiences on the purely physical plane will have resonance within our own innermost being and reality, so that we actually feel the rapture of being alive.

There is an Indian fable of three beings who drank from a river: one was a god, and he drank ambrosia; one was a man, and he drank water; and one was a demon, and he drank filth. What you get is a function of your own consciousness.