I have found that you have only to take that one step toward the gods, and they will then take ten steps toward you. That step, the heroic first step of the journey, is out of, or over the edge of, your boundaries, and it often must be taken before you know that you will.

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

You must have a room, or a certain hour or so a day, where you don't know what was in the newspapers that morning a place where you can simply experience and bring forth what you are and what you might be.

A bit of advice Given to a young Native American At the time of his initiation: As you go the way of life, You will see a great chasm. Jump. It is not as wide as you think.

You can't say life is useless because it ends in the grave.

Man was not breathed into the earth. Man came out of the earth.

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