And if there was no Fall, what then of the need for Redemption? What god was offended and by whom? Some especially touchy cave bear whose skull had been improperly enshrined?

Each of us has capacities. The real trick is knowing the machinery of the boat in which you are crossing the channel.

I don't believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive.

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.

If you have a sacred place and use it, take advantage of it, something will happen.

Poetry comes out of an elite experience, the experience of people whose ears are opened to the song of the universe.

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