The courage to face the trials and to bring a whole new body of possibilities into the field of interpreted experience for other people to experience - that is the hero's deed.

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

He must put aside his pride, his virtue, beauty and life and bow or submit to the absolutely intolerable.

An old Apache storyteller reminds us

I think what we lack isn't science, but poetry that reveals what the heart is ready to recognize

Mythology tells us that where you stumble, there your treasure is ... The world is a match for us, and we’re a match for the world. And where it seems most challenging lies the greatest invitation to find deeper and greater power in ourselves.

The dark night of the soul comes just before revelation.