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.

The Garden is a metaphor for the following: our minds, and our thinking in terms of pairs of opposites--man and woman, good and evil--are as holy as that of a god. (50)

When you make the sacrifice in marriage, you're sacrificing not to each other but to unity in a relationship.

What's made up in the head is the fiction. What comes out of the heart is a myth.

If you follow your bliss you will find a path laid out before you that has been waiting for you all along and you will begin to live the life you ought to be living.

Once you know the difference between right and wrong, you have lots fewer decisions to make.

The modern hero-deed must be that of questing to bring to light again the lost Atlantis of the co-ordinated Soul.