The mighty hero of extraordinary powers, able to lift Mount Govardhan on a finger, and to fill himself with the terrible glory of the universe, is each of us: not the physical self visible in the mirror, but the King within.

A temple is a landscape of the soul.

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

When people find out what it is that's ticking in them, they get straightened out.

No one in the world was ever you before, with your particular gifts and abilities and possibilities.

Mythology may, in a real sense, be defined as other people's religion. And religion may, in a sense, be understood as popular misunderstanding of mythology. (8)

It would not be too much to say that myth is the secret opening through which the inexhaustible energies of the cosmos pour into human cultural manifestation. Religions, philosophies, arts, the social forms of primitive and historic man, prime discoveries in science and technology, the very dreams that blister sleep, boil up from the basic, magic ring of myth.