The god you worship is the one you're capable of becoming.

The Navajo have that wonderful image of what they call the pollen path. The Navajo say, 'Oh, beauty before me, beauty behind me, beauty to the right of me, beauty to the left of me, beauty above me, beauty below me, I'm on the pollen path.'

The familiar life horizon has been outgrown: the old concepts, ideals, and emotional patterns no longer fit; the time for the passing of a threshold is at hand.

The job of an educator is to teach students to see vitality in themselves

I think of mythology as the homeland of the muses, the inspirers of art, the inspirers of poetry. To see life as a poem and yourself participating in a poem is what the myth does for you.

It is not society which is to guide and save the creative hero, but precisely the reverse.

We have to permit go with the everyday living we had prepared so as to have the lifetime that's watching for us