Myth must be kept alive. The people who can keep it alive are the artists of one kind or another.

The concept of time shuts off eternity.

The purpose of the journey is compassion. When you have come past the pairs of opposites, you have reached compassion.

Eternity is not future or past. Eternity is a dimension of now. It is a dimension of the human spirit -- which is eternal. Find that eternal dimension in yourself, and you will ride through time, and throughout the whole length of your days.

There is what I would call the hero journey, the night sea journey, the hero quest, where the individual is going to bring forth in his life something that was never beheld before.

Behind all these manifestations is the one radiance, which shines through all things.

Dream is personalized myth, myth is depersonalized dream; both myth and dream are symbolic in the same general way of the dynamics of the psyche. But in the dream the forms are quirked by the peculiar troubles of the dreamer, whereas in myth the problem and solutions shown are directly valid for all mankind.