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.

We are the consciousness of the earth. We are the eyes of the earth. The voice of the earth.

Marriage is not a love affair. A love affair has to do with immediate personal satisfaction. Marriage is an ordeal; it means yielding, time and again. That's why it's a sacrament; You give up your personal simplicity to participate in a relationship. And when you're giving, you're not giving to the other person; you're giving to the relationship.

The function of artists is "the mythologization of the world."

What gods are there, what gods have there ever been, that were not from man's imagination?

The best we can do is lean towards the light.

The folktale is the primer of the picture-language of the soul.