Apocalypse does not point to a fiery Armageddon but to the fact that our ignorance and our complacency are coming to an end.

Life will always be sorrowful. We can't change it, but we can change our attitude toward it.

It has always been the prime function of mythology and rite to supply the symbols that carry the human spirit forward.

What is a god? A god is a personification of a motivating power of a value system that functions in human life and in the universe.

Dream is personalized myth, myth is depersonalized dream; both myth and dream are symbolic in the same general way of the dynamics of the psyche. But in the dream the forms are quirked by the peculiar troubles of the dreamer, whereas in myth the problem and solutions shown are directly valid for all mankind.

The world is full of people who have stopped listening to themselves.

Sit in a room and read--and read and read. And read the right books by the right people. Your mind is brought onto that level, and you have a nice, mild, slow-burning rapture all the time.