Our powerful hunger for myth is a hunger for community. The person without a myth is a person without a home...To be a member of one's community is to share in its myths.

What if imagination and art are not frosting at all, but the fountainhead of human experience?

We receive love — from our children as well as others — not in proportion to our demands or sacrifices or needs, but roughly in proportion to our own capacity to love.

When you are completely absorbed or caught up in something, you become oblivious to things around you, or to the passage of time. It is this absorption in what you are doing that frees your unconscious and releases your creative imagination.

Evil, in this system of ethics, is that which tears apart, shuts out the other person, raises barriers, sets people against each other.

I learned that healing and cure are active processes in which I myself needed to participate.

They pursue meaninglessness until they can force it to mean.