The dance is the highest symbol of life itself.

My writing is of a very different kind from anything I've heard about. All this mythological material is out there, a big gathering of stuff, and I have been reading it for some forty- or fifty-odd years. There are various ways of handling that. The most common is to put the material together and publish a scholarly book about it. But when I'm writing, I try to get a sense of an experiential relationship to the material. In fact, I can't write unless that happens ... I don't write unless the stuff is really working on me, and my selection of material depends on what works.

All the gods, all the heavens, all the hells, are within you.

God is within you. You yourself are your creator. If you find that place in yourself from which you brought this thing about, you will be able to live with it and affirm it, perhaps even enjoy it, as your life.

We are the consciousness of the earth. We are the eyes of the earth. The voice of the earth.

I think it's important to live life with a knowledge of its mystery, and of your own mystery.

Participate joyfully in the sorrows of life