We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us.

Mythological symbols touch and exhilarate centers of life beyond the reach of vocabularies of reason and coercion.

Mythologies, in other words, mythologies and religions are great poems and, when recognized as such, point infallibly through things and events to the ubiquity of a

Whenever men have looked for something solid on which to found their lives, they have chosen not the facts in which the world abounds, but the myths of an immemorial imagination.

Love your enemies, for they determine who you are.

The function of ritual, as I understand it, is to give form to human life, not in the way of a mere surface arrangement, but in depth.

The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.