Following your bliss is not self-indulgent, but vital; your whole physical system knows that this is the way to be alive in this world and the way to give to the world the very best that you have to offer. There IS a track just waiting for each of us and once on it, doors will open that were not open before and would not open for anyone else.

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

[M]yths are not invented as stories are. Myths are inspired-they really are. They come from the same realm that dream comes from.

There's always the possibility of a fiasco. But there's also the possibility of bliss.

The demon that you can swallow gives you it’s power, and the greater life’s pain, the greater life’s reply.

The conquest of the fear of death is the recovery of life's joy. One can experience an unconditional affirmation of life only when one has accepted death, not as contrary to life, but as an aspect of life. Life in its becoming is always shedding death, and on the point of death. The conquest of fear yields the courage of life. That is the cardinal initiation of every heroic adventure - fearlessness and achievement.

This is all I ever wanted - to help students and artists see myth as a reflection of the one sublime adventure of life, and then to breathe new life into it.