The function of the society is to cultivate the individual. It is not the function of the individual to support society.

Marriage is not a simple love affair, it's an ordeal, and the ordeal is the sacrifice of ego to a relationship in which two have become one.

We need myths that will identify the individual not with his local group but with the planet.

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

We save the world by being alive ourselves.

When you make the sacrifice in marriage, you're sacrificing not to each other but to unity in a relationship.

I prefer the gradual path My feeling is that mythic forms reveal themselves gradually in the course of your life if you know what they are and how to pay attention to their emergence. My own initiation into the mythic depths of the unconscious has been through the mind, through the books that surround me in this library. I have recognized in my quest all the stages of the hero's journey. I had my calls to adventure, my guides, demons, and illuminations.