Every religion, every mythology is true in this sense: It is true as metaphorical of the human and cosmic mystery.

Dream is the personalized myth, myth the depersonalized dream.

Writer’s block results from too much head. Cut off your head. Pegasus, poetry, was born of Medusa when her head was cut off. You have to be reckless when writing. Be as crazy as your conscience allows.

Their task [creative artists], therefore, is to communicate directly from one inward world to another, in such a way that an actual shock of experience will have been rendered: not a mere statement for the information or persuasion of a brain, but an effective communication across the void of space and time from one center of consciousness to another.

No one in the world was ever you before, with your particular gifts and abilities and possibilities.

Every religion is true one way or another. It is true when understood metaphorically. But when it gets stuck in its own metaphors, interpreting them as facts, then you are in trouble.

You have been thinking one way. Now you have to think a different way.