A hero is not a champion of things become, but of things becoming; the dragon to be slain by him is precisely the monster of the status quo.

Life is without meaning. You bring the meaning to it.

Every religion, every mythology is true in this sense: It is true as metaphorical of the human and cosmic mystery.

It's a shame to waste [the uniqueness that is you], by doing what someone else has done.

The courage to face the trials and to bring a whole new body of possibilities into the field of interpreted experience for other people to experience - that is the hero's deed.

We are having experiences all the time which may on occasion render some sense of this, a little intuition of where your bliss is. Grab it. No one can tell you what it is going to be. You have to learn to recognize your own depth.

[T]he experience of mystery comes not from expecting it but through yielding all your programs, because your programs are based on fear and desire. Drop them and the radiance comes. (16)