In marriage you are not sacrificing yourself to the other person. You are sacrificing yourself to the relationship.

Love your enemies, for they determine who you are.

Read myths. They teach you that you can turn inward, and you begin to get the message of the symbols. Read other people's myths, not those of your own religion, because you tend to interpret your own religion in terms of facts -- but if you read the other ones, you begin to get the message.

If you're going to have a story, have a big story, or none at all.

We have to permit go with the everyday living we had prepared so as to have the lifetime that's watching for us

When you go through life ... it all seems accidental at the time it is happening. Then when you get on in your 60s or 70s and look back, your life looks like a well-planned novel with a coherent theme ... Incidents that seemed accidental, pure chance, turn out to be major elements in the structuring of this novel. Schopenhauer says, 'Who wrote this novel? You did.'

We are kept out of the Garden by our own fear and desire in relation to what we think to be the goods of our life.