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If what you are following, however, is your own true adventure, if it is something appropriate to your deep spiritual need or readiness, then magical guides will appear to help you…. If you are ready for it, then doors will…

My experience is that I can feel that I’m in the Grail Castle when I’m living with people I love, doing what I love. I get that sense of being fulfilled. But, by god, it doesn’t take much to make…

“What will they think of me?” must be put aside for bliss.

Myth makes a connection between our waking consciousness and the mystery of the universe. It gives us a map or picture of the universe and allows us to see ourselves in relationship to nature, as when we speak of Father…

Sacred space and sacred time and something joyous to do is all we need. Almost anything then becomes a continuous and increasing joy.

I work out on a veranda––they call it a “lanai” out there––with my back to the ocean and to what’s going on. What’s going on is usually a startling bikini walking past. I couldn’t write about anything but the Goddess…

If the body is a light bulb, and it burns out, does that mean there’s no more electricity? The source of energy remains. We can discard the body and go on. We are the source.

Eternity is not a continuation of time. Eternity is a dimension of here and now.

To see life as a poem and yourself participating in that poem is what the myth does for you.

I think the idea of life after death is a bad idea. It distracts you from appreciating the uniqueness of the here and now, the moment you are living for.

Wisdom and foolishness are practically the same. Both are indifferent to the opinions of the world.

The goal of life is rapture. Art is the way we experience it.

Myths formulate things for you. They say, for example, that you have to become an adult at a particular age. The age might be a good average age for that to happen – but actually, in the individual life, it…

When life produces what the intellect names evil, we may enter into righteous battle, contending from “loyalty of heart”: however, if the principle of love (Christ’s “Love your enemies!”) is lost, our humanity too will be lost. “Man,” in the…

When you see the Earth from the Moon, you don’t see any divisions there of nations or states. This might be the symbol, really, for the new mythology to come. This is the country that we are going to be…

When real trouble comes, your humanity is awakened. The fundamental human experience is that of compassion.

A bit of advice given to a young Native American at the time of his initiation: “As you go the way of life, you will see a great chasm. Jump. It is not as wide as you think.”

If ever there was an art in which the whole community of man has worked – seasoned with the philosophy of the codger on the wharf and singing with the music of the spheres – it is this of the…

I would say that all our sciences are the material that has to be mythologized. A mythology gives spiritual import – what one might call rather the psychological, inward import, of the world of nature round about us, as understood…

And in athletics, all this mysticism of track, and the rapture and ecstasy in sexual experiences – all these are mystical; all related to the loss of ego and its tenacity – yielding to a larger opening. That’s what mysticism…

Successful marriage is leading innovative lives together, being open, non-programmed. It’s a free fall: how you handle each new thing as it comes along.

I personally don’t even think that unconditional love is an ideal. I think you’ve got to have a discriminating faculty and let bastards be bastards and let those that ought to be hit in the jaw get it. In fact,…

The myths are clues to unite the forces within us.