I am Shiva-this is the great meditation of the yogis in the Himalayas...Hea ven and hell are within us, and all the gods are within us. This is the great realization of the Upanishads of India in the ninth century B.C. All the gods, all the heavens, all the worlds, are within us. They are magnified dreams, and dreams are manifestations in image form of the energies of the body in conflict with each other.
Any god who can invent hell is no candidate for the Salvation Army
Your own path you make with every step you take. That's why it's your path.
For the bliss of the deep abode is not lightly abandoned in favor of the self-scattering of the wakened state.
Mythology is often defined as 'other peoples' religions', religion can be thought of as misinterpreted mythology.
Instead of clearing his own heart the zealot tries to clear the world.
The best we can do is lean towards the light.
Our life evokes our character and you find out more about yourself as you go on.
We have today to learn to get back into accord with the wisdom of nature and realize again our brotherhood with the animals and with the water and the sea.
When you follow your bliss...doors will open where you would not have thought there would be doors, and where there wouldn't be a door for anyone else.
Whether you call someone a hero or a monster is all relative to where the focus of your consciousness may be.
The unconscious sends all sorts of vapors, odd beings, terrors, and deluding images up into the mind - whether in dream, broad daylight, or insanity: for the human kingdom, beneath the floor of the comparatively neat little dwelling that we call our consciousness, goes down into unsuspected Aladdin caves.
The hero, therefore, is the man or woman who has been able to battle past his personal and local historical limitations.
The realms of the gods and demons - heaven, purgatory, hell - are of the substance of dreams. Myth, in this view, is the dream of the world.
In marriage you are not sacrificing yourself to the other person. You are sacrificing yourself to the relationship.
What each must seek in his life never was on land or sea. It is something out of his own unique potentiality for experience, something that never has been and never could have been experienced by anyone else.
Wars and temper tantrums are the makeshifts of ignorance; regrets are illuminations come too late.
When an idea is important to a person or culture it will find its way into imagery.
The two greatest works of war mythology in the west ... are the Iliad and the Old Testament... When we turn from the Iliad and Athens to Jerusalem and the Old Testament we find a single-minded single deity with his sympathies forever on one side. And the enemy, accordingly, no matter who it may be, is handled... pretty much as though he were subhuman: not a "Thou" but an "It."
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.
I think of mythology as a function of biology; the energies of the body are the energies that move the imagination. These energies are the source, then, of mythological imagery; in a mythological organization of symbols, the conflicts between the different organic impulses within the body are resolved and harmonized. You might say mythology is a formula for the harmonization of the energies of life.
The latest incarnation of Oedipus, the continued romance of Beauty and the Beast, stand this afternoon on the corner of Forty-second Street and Fifth Avenue, waiting for the traffic light to change.
I always feel uncomfortable when people speak about ordinary mortals because I've never met an ordinary man, woman or child.
The seat of the soul is where the inner world and the outer world meet.
The problem in our society and in our schools is to inclulcate, without overdoing it, the notion of education, as in the Latin educere--to lead, to bring out what is in someone rather than merely to indoctrinate him/her from the outside. (89)
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