Myths which are believed in tend to become true.
Myths are public dreams, dreams are private myths.
The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie, deliberate, contrived and dishonest, but the myth, persistent, persuasive and unrealistic.
If you dream the proper dreams, and share the myths with people, they will want to grow up to be like you.
Myth is the hidden part of every story, the buried part, the region that is still unexplored because there are as yet no words to enable us to get there. Myth is nourished by silence as well as by words.
Myth is an attempt to narrate a whole human experience, of which the purpose is too deep, going too deep in the blood and soul, for mental explanation or description.
Myth is neither a lie nor a confession: it is an inflexion.
Myths are made for the imagination to breath life into them.
Myths are clues to the spiritual potentialities of the human life.
There are no gods, no devils, no angels, no heaven or hell. There is only our natural world. Religion is but myth and superstition that hardens hearts and enslaves minds.
Myths are early science, the result of men's first trying to explain what they saw around them.
Myths and creeds are heroic struggles to comprehend the truth in the world.
Over the centuries we have transformed the ancient myths and folk tales and made them into the fabric of our lives. Consciously and unconsciously we weave the narratives of myth and folk tale into our daily existence.
Myth is much more important and true than history. History is just journalism and you know how reliable that is.
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.
A myth is a religion in which no one any longer believes.
Myths are so intimately bound to culture, time, and place that unless the symbols, the metaphors, are kept alive by constant recreation through the arts, the life just slips away from them.
Man seeks to escape himself in myth, and does so by any means at his disposal. Drugs, alcohol, or lies. Unable to withdraw into himself, he disguises himself. Lies and inaccuracy give him a few moments of comfort.
We need myths that will identify the individual not with his local group but with the planet.
Both dreams and myths are important communications from ourselves to ourselves.
I drag my myth around with me.
A ritual is the enactment of a myth. And, by participating in the ritual, you are participating in the myth. And since myth is a projection of the depth wisdom of the psyche, by participating in a ritual, participating in the myth, you are being, as it were, put in accord with that wisdom, which is the wisdom that is inherent within you anyhow. Your consciousness is being re-minded of the wisdom of your own life.
All the great things have been denied and we live in an intricacy of new and local mythologies, political, economic, poetic, which are asserted with an ever-enlarging incoherence.
It is a sure sign that a culture has reached a dead end when it is no longer intrigued by its myths.
It is a myth, not a mandate, a fable not a logic, a symbol rather than reason by which men are moved.
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