If you're going to have a story, have a big story, or none at all.

A one sentence definition of mythology? Mythology is what we call someone else's religion.

The function of ritual, as I understand it, is to give form to human life, not in the way of a mere surface arrangement, but in depth.

This is an essential experience of any mystical realization. You die to your flesh and are born into your spirit. You identify yourself with the consciousness and life of which your body is but the vehicle. You die to the vehicle and become identified in your consciousness with that of which the vehicle is but the carrier. That is the God.

A myth doesn't have to be real to be true.

Mythology may, in a real sense, be defined as other people's religion. And religion may, in a sense, be understood as popular misunderstanding of mythology. (8)

Every act has both good and evil results. The best we can do is lean to the light.