Myth is the secret opening through which the inexhaustible energies of the cosmos pour into human manifestation.

Passion will move men beyond themselves, beyond their shortcomings, beyond their failures.

How does the ordinary person come to the transcendent? For a start, I would say, study poetry. Learn how to read a poem. You need not have the experience to get the message, or at least some indication of the message. It may come gradually. (92)

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

Have you ever looked inside one of those things [computers]? It's a whole hierarchy of angels- all on slats. And those little tubes-those are miracles.

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.

You've got to say yes to this miracle of life as it is, not on condition that it follow your rules.