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

What you have to do, you do with play. The universe is God’s play.

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.

It is the function of art to carry us beyond speech to experience.

Is the system going to flatten you out and deny you your humanity, or are you going to be able to make use of the system to the attainment of human purposes?

It is by going down into the abyss that we recover the treasures of life. Where you stumble, there lies your treasure.

For those in whom a local mythology still works, there is an experience both of accord with the social order, and of harmony with the universe. For those, however, in whom the authorized signs no longer work-or, if working, produce deviant effects-there follows inevitably a sense both of dissociation from the local social nexus and of quest, within and without, for life, which the brain will take to be for 'meaning'.