The adventure that the hero is ready for is the one he gets.

As Freud has shown, blunders are not the merest chance. They are the result of suppressed desires and conflicts. They are ripples on the surface of life, produced by unsuspected springs. And these may be very deep - as deep as the soul itself. The blunder may amount to the opening of a destiny.

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.

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

Privation and suffering alone open the mind to all that is hidden to others. (Igjugarjuk)

You must have a place to which you can go in your heart, your mind, or your house, almost every day, where you do not owe anyone and where no one owes you - a place that simply allows for the blossoming of something new and promising.

I think of mythology as the homeland of the muses, the inspirers of art, the inspirers of poetry. To see life as a poem and yourself participating in a poem is what the myth does for you.