Myths are experienced in ordinary life, as everyday epiphanies.

Synchronicity is an inexplicable and profoundly meaningful coincidence that stirs the soul and offers a glimpse of one's destiny.

The mythic is everywhere.

Reading old travel books or novels set in faraway places, spinning globes, unfolding maps, playing world music, eating in ethnic restaurants, meeting friends in cafes . . . all these things are part of never-ending travel practice, not unlike doing scales on a piano, shooting free-throws, or meditating.

Pilgrimage is a powerful metaphor for any journey with the purpose of finding something that matters deeply to the traveler.

In each of us dwells a pilgrim. It is the part of us that longs to have direct contact with the sacred.

Myths are lies that tell the truth.