Subtotal: $9,868.23
You can’t predict what a myth is going to be any more than you can predict what you’re going to dream tonight. Myths and dream come from the same place. They come from realizations of some kind that have then…
As a drop of oil on the sea, you must float, using intellect and compassion to ride the waves.
The mythogenetic zone today is the individual in contact with his own interior life, communicating through his art with those “out there.”
The mythogenetic zone today is the individual in contact with his own interior life, communicating through his art with those “out there.” But to this end communicative signs must be employed: words, images, motions, colors, and perfumes, sensations of all…
A dream is a personal experience of that deep, dark ground that is the support of our conscious lives, and a myth is the society’s dream. The myth is the public dream and the dream is the private myth. If…
My general formula for my students is “Follow your bliss.” Find where it is, and don’t be afraid to follow it. . . . If the work you are doing is the work that you chose to do because you…
In one of the Upanishads it says, when the glow of a sunset holds you and you say “Aha,” that is the recognition of the divinity. And when you say ‘Aha’ to an art object, that is a recognition of…
My definition of a devil is a god who has not been recognized. That is to say, it is a power in you to which you have not given expression, and you push it back. And then, like all repressed…
Mythology helps you to identify the mysteries of the energies pouring through you. Therein lies your eternity.
To live the heroic life is to live the individual adventure, really. One of the problems today is that with the enormous transformations in the forms of our lives, the models for life don’t exist for us. In a traditional…
There are mythologies that are scattered, broken up, all around us. We stand on what I call the terminal moraine of shattered mythic systems that once structured society. They can be detected all around us. You can select any of…
In meditating, meditate on your own divinity. The goal of life is to be a vehicle for something higher. Keep your eyes up there between the world of opposites watching your ‘play’ in the world.Let the world be as it…
Once you understand symbolic things, you, too, will see symbols everywhere.
The spirit is the bouquet of nature.
Now, all these myths that you have heard and that resonate with you, those are the elements from round about that you are building into a form in your life. The thing worth considering is how they relate to each…
The Cosmic Dancer, declares Nietzsche, does not rest heavily in a single spot, but gaily, lightly, turns and leaps from one position to another. It is possible to speak from only one point at a time, but that does not…
If you live with the myths in your mind, you will find yourself always in mythological situations. They cover everything that can happen to you. And that enables you to interpret the myth in relation to life, as well as…
The landscape of the myth is the landscape of the human spirit.
The beauty of the rite … is the beauty of one’s essential nature. By participation in the rite, by uniting the mind with that beauty, by walking the way of the god, one becomes profoundly composed. The landscape of the…
Of what profit to the young man going off to war to have chanted over him, five long days and nights, the hymns and prayers of such a rite? What can be the meaning of this solemn sitting or standing…
Deities have to become, as one great German scholar said, “transparent to the transcendent.” The transcendent must show and shine through those deities. But it must shine through us, too, and through the spiritual things we are talking about.
The conquest of the fear of death is the recovery of life’s joy. One can experience an unconditional affirmation of life only when one has accepted death, not as contrary to life, but as an aspect of life. Life in…
What we are really living for is the experience of life, both the pain and the pleasure. The world is a match for us. We are a match for the world.