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"If a person does not listen to the demands of their own spiritual and heart life and insists on a certain program, you're going to have a schizophrenic crackup. The person has put themselves off center. They have aligned themselves with a programmatic life and it's not the one the body is interested in at all."
"In marriage you are not sacrificing yourself to the other person. You are sacrificing yourself to the relationship."
"We are all born as animals and live the life that animals live: we sleep, eat, reproduce, and fight. There is, however, another order of living, which the animals do not know, that of awe before the mystery of being ... that can be the root and branch of the spiritual sense of one’s days. That is the birth - the Virgin Birth - in the heart of a properly human, spiritual life."
"Great Brahma from his mystic heaven groans, And all his priesthood moans."
"The call to adventure signifies that destiny has summoned the hero."
"Every myth is psychologically symbolic. Its narratives and images are to be read, therefore, not literally, but as metaphors."
"The best things cannot be told, the second best are misunderstood. After that comes civilized conversation; after that, mass indoctrination; after that, intercultural exchange."
"I don't have to have faith, I have experience."
"The problem of making the inner meet the outer of today is, of course, the function of the artist."
"The creative act is not hanging on, but yielding to a new creative movement. Awe is what moves us forward."
"There's always the possibility of a fiasco. But there's also the possibility of bliss."
"A myth doesn't have to be real to be true."
"What's made up in the head is the fiction. What comes out of the heart is a myth."
"All religions are true but none are literal."
"What we're learning in our schools is not the wisdom of life. We're learning technologies, we're getting information. There's a curious reluctance on the part of faculties to indicate the life values of their subjects."
"The psyche is the inward experience of the human body, which is essentially the same in all human beings, with the same organs, the same instincts, the same impulses, the same conflicts, the same fears. Out of this common ground have come what Jung has called the archetypes, which are the common ideas of myths."
"Dream is the personalized myth, myth the depersonalized dream."
"It has always been the prime function of mythology and rite to supply the symbols that carry the human spirit forward."
"For if anything is capable of making a poet of a literary man, it is my hometown love of the human, the living and ordinary."
"Where you stumble, there lies your treasure. The very cave you are afraid to enter turns out to be the source of what you are looking for. The damned thing in the cave that was so dreaded has become the center."