The goal is to live with God like composure on the full rush of energy, like Dionysus riding the leopard, without being torn to pieces.

It's a shame to waste [the uniqueness that is you], by doing what someone else has done.

When you make the sacrifice in marriage, you're sacrificing not to each other but to unity in a relationship.

There are now no more horizons. And with the dissolution of horizons we have experienced and are experiencing collisions, terrific collisions, not only of peoples but also of their mythologies. It is as when dividing panels are withdrawn from between chambers of very hot and very cold airs: there is a rush of these forces together.

The myth is the public dream and the dream is the private myth.

There's nothing you can do that's more important than being fulfilled. You become a sign, you become a signal, transparent to transcendence; in this way, you will find, live, and become a realization of your own personal myth.

You enter the forest at the darkest point, where there is no path. Where there is a way or path, it is someone else's path. You are not on your own path. If you follow someone else's way, you are not going to realize your potential.