Man was not breathed into the earth. Man came out of the earth.

I think what we lack isn't science, but poetry that reveals what the heart is ready to recognize

Follow your bliss. The heroic life is living the individual adventure.

When you go through life ... it all seems accidental at the time it is happening. Then when you get on in your 60s or 70s and look back, your life looks like a well-planned novel with a coherent theme ... Incidents that seemed accidental, pure chance, turn out to be major elements in the structuring of this novel. Schopenhauer says, 'Who wrote this novel? You did.'

It has always been the prime function of mythology and rite to supply the symbols that carry the human spirit forward.

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?

If there were already a path, it would have to be someone else's; the whole point is to find your own way.