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Wherever the poetry of myth is interpreted as biography, history, or science, it is killed. - Author object (460)

The fates lead him who will; him who won't they drag. - Author object (460)

Myth is what we call other people's religion. - Author object (460)

We're in a freefall into future. We don't know where we're going. Things are changing so fast, and always when you're going through a long tunnel, anxiety comes along. And all you have to do to transform your hell into a paradise is to turn your fall into a voluntary act. It's a very interesting shift of perspective and that's all it is... joyful participation in the sorrows and everything changes. - Author object (460)

Just as anyone who listens to the muse will hear, you can write out of your own intention or out of inspiration. There is such a thing. It comes up and talks. And those who have heard deeply the rhythms and hymns of the gods, can recite those hymns in such a way that the gods will be attracted. - Author object (460)

I don't have to have faith, I have experience. - Author object (460)

God is the experience of looking at a tree and saying, 'Ah!' - Author object (460)

We're so engaged in doing things to achieve purposes of outer value that we forget the inner value, the rapture that is associated with being alive, is what it is all about. - Author object (460)

Myth is much more important and true than history. History is just journalism and you know how reliable that is. - Author object (460)

Find a place inside where there's joy, and the joy will burn out the pain. - Author object (460)

Gods suppressed become devils, and often it is these devils whom we first encounter when we turn inward. - Author object (460)

Sit in a room and read--and read and read. And read the right books by the right people. Your mind is brought onto that level, and you have a nice, mild, slow-burning rapture all the time. - Author object (460)

The big question is whether you are going to be able to say a hearty yes to your adventure - Author object (460)

The goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe to match your nature with Nature. - Author object (460)

Regrets are illuminations come too late. - Author object (460)

Your sacred space is where you can find yourself over and over again. - Author object (460)

Half the people in the world think that the metaphors of their religious traditions, for example, are facts. And the other half contends that they are not facts at all. As a result we have people who consider themselves believers because they accept metaphors as facts, and we have others who classify themselves as atheists because they think religious metaphors are lies. - Author object (460)

We must be willing to get rid of the life we planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us. - Author object (460)

Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known. - Author object (303)

Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality. - Author object (303)