One great thing about growing old is that nothing is going to lead to anything. Everything is of the moment.
Mythological symbols touch and exhilarate centers of life beyond the reach of vocabularies of reason and coercion.
In choosing your god, you choose your way of looking at the universe. There are plenty of Gods. Choose yours.
When we quit thinking primarily about ourselves and our own self-preservation, we undergo a truly heroic transformation of consciousness.
Follow your bliss and don't be afraid, and door will open where you didn't know they were going to be.
I prefer the gradual path My feeling is that mythic forms reveal themselves gradually in the course of your life if you know what they are and how to pay attention to their emergence. My own initiation into the mythic depths of the unconscious has been through the mind, through the books that surround me in this library. I have recognized in my quest all the stages of the hero's journey. I had my calls to adventure, my guides, demons, and illuminations.
There's always the possibility of a fiasco. But there's also the possibility of bliss.
Christianity isn’t moving people’s lives today. What’s moving people’s lives is the stock market and the baseball scores. What are people excited about? It’s a totally materialistic level that has taken over the world. There isn’t even an ideal that anybody’s fighting for.
I think it's important to live life with a knowledge of its mystery, and of your own mystery.
Don't do anything that isn't play
Life is but a mask worn on the face of death. And is death, then, but another mask? 'How many can say,' asks the Aztec poet, 'that there is, or is not, a truth beyond?'
Life, in both its knowing and its doing, has become today a "free fall," so to say, into the next minute, into the future. So that, whereas, formerly, those not wishing to hazard the adventure of an individual life could rest within the pale of a comfortably guaranteed social order, today all the walls have burst. It is not left to us to chooseto hazard the adventure of an unprecedented life: adventure is upon us, like a tidal wave.
You are the Hero of your own Story.
Every act has both good and evil results. The best we can do is lean to the light.
Myths are clues to the spiritual potentialities of the human life.
The problem of making the inner meet the outer of today is, of course, the function of the artist.
What we're learning in our schools is not the wisdom of life. We're learning technologies, we're getting information. There's a curious reluctance on the part of faculties to indicate the life values of their subjects.
The process of nature cannot be evil.
If you want to change the world, you have to change the metaphor.
You have to have a feeling for where you are. You've got only one life to live and you don't have to live it for six people. Pay attention to it.
The Navajo have that wonderful image of what they call the pollen path. The Navajo say, 'Oh, beauty before me, beauty behind me, beauty to the right of me, beauty to the left of me, beauty above me, beauty below me, I'm on the pollen path.'
The role of the artist I now understood as that of revealing through the world-surfaces the implicit forms of the soul, and the great agent to assist the artist was the myth.
Money is congealed energy, and releasing it releases life's possibilities.
This is an essential experience of any mystical realization. You die to your flesh and are born into your spirit. You identify yourself with the consciousness and life of which your body is but the vehicle. You die to the vehicle and become identified in your consciousness with that of which the vehicle is but the carrier. That is the God.
We are the consciousness of the earth. We are the eyes of the earth. The voice of the earth.
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