The adventure of the hero is the adventure of being alive

The perfect human being is uninteresting.

So that's what destiny is: simply the fulfillment of the potentialites of the energies in your own system.

I think of mythology as the homeland of the muses, the inspirers of art, the inspirers of poetry. To see life as a poem and yourself participating in a poem is what the myth does for you.

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.

Follow your bliss. The heroic life is living the individual adventure. There is no security in following the call to adventure. Nothing is exciting if you know what the outcome is going to be.

The problem of making the inner meet the outer of today is, of course, the function of the artist.