For if anything is capable of making a poet of a literary man, it is my hometown love of the human, the living and ordinary.

The night of December 25, to which date the Nativity of Christ was ultimately assigned, was exactly that of the birth of the Persian savior Mithra, who, as an incarnation of eternal light, was born the night of the winter solstice (then dated December 25) at midnight, the instant of the turn of the year from increasing darkness to light.

If you follow your bliss...the life that you ought to be living is the one you are living.

A one sentence definition of mythology? Mythology is what we call someone else's religion.

The idea of Buddha consciousness is that all beings are Buddha beings, and your whole function in meditation and everything else is to find that Buddha consciousness within and live out of that, instead of the interests of the eyes and ears.

Myth is the secret opening through which the inexhaustible energies of the cosmos pour into human manifestation.

Whatever the hell happens, say, 'This is what I need.'