Whether you call someone a hero or a monster is all relative to where the focus of your consciousness may be.

Instead of clearing his own heart the zealot tries to clear the world.

The usual hero adventure begins with someone from whom something has been taken, or who feels there is something lacking in the normal experience available or permitted to the members of society. The person then takes off on a series of adventures beyond the ordinary, either to recover what has been lost or to discover some life-giving elixir. It's usually a cycle, a coming and a returning.

The role of the artist I now understood as that of revealing through the world-surfaces the implicit forms of the soul, and the great agent to assist the artist was the myth.

At such moments, you realize that you and the other are, in fact, one. It's a big realization. Survival is the second law of life. The first is that we are all one.

Heroism is a matter of integrity--beco ming more and more at each step ourselves.

If you're going to have a story, have a big story, or none at all.