When you are on your path, and it is truly your path, doors will open for you where there were no doors for someone else.

Mythology is composed by poets out of their insights and realizations. Mythologies are not invented; they are found. You can no more tell us what your dream is going to be tonight than we can invent a myth. Myths come from the mystical region of essential experience.

What gods are there, what gods have there ever been, that were not from man's imagination?

You know the rule: If you are falling, dive. Do the thing that has to be done.

I think the person who takes a job in order to live - that is to say, for the money - has turned himself into a slave.

The myths and folk tales of the whole world make clear that the refusal is essentially a refusal to give up what one takes to be one's own interest. The future is regarded not in terms of an unremitting series of deaths and births, but as though one's present system of ideals, virtues, goals, and advantages were to be fixed and made secure.

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