Your sacred space is where you can find yourself again and again.

I don't believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive.

Opportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves come when life seems most challenging.

Participate joyfully in the sorrows of the world. We cannot cure the world of sorrows, but we can choose to live in joy.

The adventure evoked a quality of his character that he didn't know he possessed.

Clearly, mythology is no toy for children. Nor is it a matter of archaic, merely scholarly concern, of no moment to modern men of action. For its symbols (whether in the tangible form of images or in the abstract form of ideas) touch and release the deepest centers of motivation, moving literate and illiterate alike, moving mobs, moving civilizations.

Is the system going to flatten you out and deny you your humanity, or are you going to be able to make use of the system to the attainment of human purposes?

If you want to change the world, you have to change the metaphor.

Myths are public dreams, dreams are private myths.