The last act in the biography of the hero is that of the death or departure.

Gods suppressed become devils, and often it is these devils whom we first encounter when we turn inward.

I think of compassion as the fundamental religious experience and, unless that is there, you have nothing.

Through dreams a door is opened to mythology, since myths are of the nature of dreams, and that, as dreams arise from an inward world unknown to waking consciousness, so do myths: so, indeed, does life.

Life has no meaning. Each of us has meaning and we bring it to life. It is a waste to be asking the question when you are the answer.

The black moment is the moment when the real message of transformation is going to come. At the darkest moment comes the light.

Life is without meaning. You bring the meaning to it. The meaning of life is whatever you ascribe it to be. Being alive is the meaning.