Within the field of a secular society, which is a sort of neutral frame that allows individuals to develop their own lives, so long as they don't annoy their neighbors too much, each of us has an individual myth that's driving us, which we may or may not know.

A myth doesn't have to be real to be true.

Opportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves come when life seems most challenging.

Find a place inside where there's joy, and the joy will burn out the pain.

Hell is life drying up.

Perhaps some of us have to go through dark and devious ways before we can find the river of peace or the highroad to the soul's destination.

People say that what we're all seeking is a meaning for life. I don't think that's what we're really seeking. I think what we're seeking is an experience of being alive, so that our life experiences on the purely physical plane will have resonance within our own innermost being and reality, so that we actually feel the rapture of being alive.