Every myth is psychologically symbolic. Its narratives and images are to be read, therefore, not literally, but as metaphors.

The last act in the biography of the hero is that of the death or departure.

I should have said, 'Follow your blisters.'

The problem in our society and in our schools is to inclulcate, without overdoing it, the notion of education, as in the Latin educere--to lead, to bring out what is in someone rather than merely to indoctrinate him/her from the outside. (89)

Their task [creative artists], therefore, is to communicate directly from one inward world to another, in such a way that an actual shock of experience will have been rendered: not a mere statement for the information or persuasion of a brain, but an effective communication across the void of space and time from one center of consciousness to another.

Behind all these manifestations is the one radiance, which shines through all things.

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