The world without spirit is a wasteland. People have the notion of saving the world by shifting things around, changing the rules, and who's on top, and so forth. No, no! Any world is a valid world if it's alive. The thing to do is to bring life to it, and the only way to do that is to find in your own case where the life is and become alive yourself.

Mythology is not a lie, mythology is poetry, it is metaphorical. It has been well said that mythology is the penultimate truth--penultimate because the ultimate cannot be put into words. It is beyond words. Beyond images, beyond that bounding rim of the Buddhist Wheel of Becoming. Mythology pitches the mind beyond that rim, to what can be known but not told.

Let the world be as it is and learn to rock with the waves.

Myths are public dreams, dreams are private myths.

The big question is whether you are going to be able to say a hearty yes to your adventure.

It has always been the prime function of mythology and rite to supply the symbols that carry the human spirit forward.

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