How to get rid of ego as dictator and turn it into messenger and servant and scout, to be in your service, is the trick.

What will they think of me? Must be put aside for bliss

Read myths. They teach you that you can turn inward, and you begin to get the message of the symbols. Read other people's myths, not those of your own religion, because you tend to interpret your own religion in terms of facts -- but if you read the other ones, you begin to get the message.

The big question is whether you are going to be able to say a hearty yes to your adventure.

The function of ritual, as I understand it, is to give form to human life, not in the way of a mere surface arrangement, but in depth.

Mythologies, in other words, mythologies and religions are great poems and, when recognized as such, point infallibly through things and events to the ubiquity of a

Your life is the fruit of your own doing. You have no one to blame but yourself.