When before the beauty of a sunset or a mountain, you pause and exclaim, 'Ah,' you are participating in divinity.

Wherever the poetry of myth is interpreted as biography, history, or science, it is killed.

You yourself are participating in the evil, or you are not alive. Whatever you do is evil for somebody. This is one of the ironies of the whole creation.

The hero, whether god or goddess, man or woman, the figure in a myth or the dreamer of a dream discovers and assimilates his opposite (his own unsuspected self) either by swallowing it or by being swallowed.

There is no security in following the call to adventure.

It may be a species of impudence to think that the way you understand God is the way God is. (60).

Man should not be in the service of society, society should be in the service of man. When man is in the service of society, you have a monster state, and that's what is threatening the world at this minute.