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In every sphere of human search and experience the mystery of the ultimate nature of being breaks into oxymoronic paradox, and the best that can be said of it has to be taken simply as metaphor––whether particles and waves or…
Mythology — and therefore civilization — is a poetic, supernormal image, conceived, like all poetry, in depth, but susceptible of interpretation on various levels. The shallowest minds see in it the local scenery; the deepest, the foreground of the void;…
It may well be that a good deal of what has been advertised as representing the will of “Old Man” actually is but the heritage of a lot of old men, and that the main idea has been not so…
Two things pull people together: aspiration and terror. These are what glue a society together.
We can no longer speak of “outsiders.” It was once possible for the ancients to say, ‘We are the chosen of God!’ and to save all love and respect for themselves, projecting their malice ‘out there.’ We have now to…
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…
Be reckless when writing. Be as crazy as your conscience allows.
All the gods are within you, within the world.
Once you understand symbolic things, you will see symbols everywhere.
Let the world be as it is and learn to rock with the waves.
Participate in the game of Life. It’s a wonderful opera – except that it hurts.
Nothing you can do is more important than being fulfilled.
Find the zeal in yourself and bring that out.
The Promised Land is a corner in the heart.
Where you stumble, there lies your treasure.
Mythology is poetry.
The world is a match for us. We are a match for the world.
The goal of life is rapture. Art is how we experience it.
For although, as Schopenhauer maintains, this impulse of compassion is the basis of all morality, it is equally a basis of what must appear to the world to be immorality, since, like God, it makes no distinction between good and…
What is it we are questing for? It is the fulfillment of that which is potential in each of us. Questing for it is not an ego trip; it is an adventure to bring into fulfillment your gift to the…
What is it we are questing for? It is the fulfillment of that which is potential in each of us. Questing for it is not an ego trip; it is an adventure to bring into fulfillment your gift to the…
So there is no rule. An individual has to find what electrifies and enlivens his own heart, and wakes him.
There are no two brains alike; there are no two hands alike; there are no two human beings alike. You can take your guidance and instruction from others, but you must find your own path.