Every story you tell is your own story.

Shakespeare said that art is a mirror held up to nature. And that’s what it is. The nature is your nature, and all of these wonderful poetic images of mythology are referring to something in you. When your mind is trapped by the image out there so that you never make the reference to yourself, you have misread the image.

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

And so Galahad decided that it would be a disgrace to set off on a quest with the other knights. Alone he would enter the dark forest where there was no path. This is the myth of The Hero's Journey.

There is no greater privilege in life than being yourself.

There is perhaps nothing worse than reaching the top of the ladder and discovering that you’re on the wrong wall.

Questing... is not an ego trip; it is an adventure to bring into fulfillment your gift to the world, which is yourself.