The creative act is not hanging on, but yielding to a new creative movement. Awe is what moves us forward.

We're all seeking...the rapture of being alive.

The ultimate dragon is within you, it is your ego clamping you down.

What we are really living for is the experience of life, both the pain and the pleasure.

There's nothing militant about Jesus. I don't read anything like that in any of the gospels. Peter drew his sword and cut off the servant's ear, and Jesus said, "Put back thy sword, Peter." But Peter has had his sword out and at work ever since.

Myths are public dreams; dreams are private myths. By finding your own dream and following it through, it will lead you to the myth-world in which you live. But just as in dream, the subject and object, though they seem to be separate, are really the same.

Man actually needs the striving and struggling for some goal worthy of him.