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

There are mythologies that are scattered, broken up, all around us. We stand on what I call a terminal moraine of shattered mythic systems that once structured society. They can be detected all around us. You can select any of these fragments that activate your imagination for your own use. Let it help shape your own relationship to the unconscious system out of which these symbols have come.

The call to adventure is the point in a person’s life when they are first given notice that everything is going to change, whether they know it or not.

If we fix on the old, we get stuck.

......the interesting thing was that the Roman Catholic monks and the Buddhist monks had no trouble understanding each other. Each of them was seeking the same experience and knew that the experience was incommunicable. The communication is only an effort to bring the hearer to the edge of the abyss; it is a signpost, not the thing itself. But the secular clergy reads the communication and gets stuck with the letter, and that's where you have the conflict.

You have to learn to recognize your own depth.

For the bliss of the deep abode is not lightly abandoned in favor of the self-scattering of the wakened state.