First you must find your trajectory, and then comes the social coordination.

And so Galahad decided that it would be a disgrace to set off on a quest with the other knights. Alone he would enter the dark forest where there was no path. This is the myth of The Hero's Journey.

Within the field of a secular society, which is a sort of neutral frame that allows individuals to develop their own lives, so long as they don't annoy their neighbors too much, each of us has an individual myth that's driving us, which we may or may not know.

Christianity isn’t moving people’s lives today. What’s moving people’s lives is the stock market and the baseball scores. What are people excited about? It’s a totally materialistic level that has taken over the world. There isn’t even an ideal that anybody’s fighting for.

The psychotic drowns in the same waters in which the mystic swims with delight.

You have to have a feeling for where you are. You've got only one life to live and you don't have to live it for six people. Pay attention to it.

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