You are more than you think you are. There are dimensions of your being and a potential for realization and consciousness that are not included in your concept of yourself. Your life is much deeper and broader than you conceive it to be here. What you are living is but a fractional inkling of what is really within you, what gives you life, breadth, and depth.

The function of ritual, as I understand it, is to give form to human life, not in the way of a mere surface arrangement, but in depth.

A hero ventures forth from the world of common day into a region of supernatural wonder. Fabulous forces are there encountered and a decisive victory is won.

If you want to see what a society really believes in, look at what the biggest buildings on the horizon are dedicated to.

If we fix on the old, we get stuck.

The less there is of you, the more you experience the sublime.

Mythology may, in a real sense, be defined as other people's religion. And religion may, in a sense, be understood as popular misunderstanding of mythology. (8)