The hero, therefore, is the man or woman who has been able to battle past his personal and local historical limitations.

[T]he experience of mystery comes not from expecting it but through yielding all your programs, because your programs are based on fear and desire. Drop them and the radiance comes. (16)

Typically, the hero of the fairy tale achieves a domestic, microcosmic triumph, and the hero of myth a world-historica l, macrocosmic triumph. Whereas the former-the youngest or despised child who becomes the master of extraordinary powers-prevails over his personal oppressors, the latter brings back from his adventure the means for the regeneration of his society as a whole.

We're not on our journey to save the world but to save ourselves. But in doing that you save the world. The influence of a vital person vitalizes.

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

When an idea is important to a person or culture it will find its way into imagery.

Myth is much more important and true than history. History is just journalism and you know how reliable that is.