The function of (heroic) symbols is to give you a sense of Aha! Yes, I know what it is, it's myself.

I don't have to have faith, I have experience.

[M]yths are not invented as stories are. Myths are inspired-they really are. They come from the same realm that dream comes from.

You are the Hero of your own Story.

I think that Jean Houston has broken through to a new understanding of the sense and uses of inward-turned contemplation-a n understanding that leaves the Freudian schools of technique and theory far behind. The accent is not on the curing of disease but on the enlargement, rather, of our health.

You enter the forest at the darkest point, where there is no path. Where there is a way or path, it is someone else's path. You are not on your own path. If you follow someone else's way, you are not going to realize your potential.

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