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Love your enemies, for they determine who you are.
Myths are public dreams, dreams are private myths.
Truth is one, the sages speak of it by many names.
When you are required to exhibit strength, it comes.
Poets and artists who speak of the mystery are rare.
Where you stumble and fall, there you will find gold.
The fates lead him who will; him who won't they drag.
Life is without meaning. You bring the meaning to it.
Whatever the hell happens, say, 'This is what I need.'
What will they think of me? Must be put aside for bliss
The dark night of the soul comes just before revelation.
Where is your bliss station? You have to try to find it.
There is no security in following the call to adventure.
The Fates guide those who will and drag those who won't!
The old skin has to be shed before the new one can come.
Follow your inner heart and the world moves in and helps.
The adventure of the hero is the adventure of being alive
Vegetarians are people who cannot hear tomatos screaming.
The god you worship is the one you're capable of becoming.
There is no greater privilege in life than being yourself.
All life stinks and you must embrace that with compassion.
Marriage . . . is not a love affair; it is an ordeal. (92)
God is the experience of looking at a tree and saying, 'Ah!
You can't say life is useless because it ends in the grave.
Let the world be as it is and learn to rock with the waves.
Our true reality is in our identity and unity with all life.
The adventure that the hero is ready for is the one he gets.
The goal of life is rapture. Art is the way we experience it.
All the gods, all the heavens, all the hells, are within you.
Dream is the personalized myth, myth the depersonalized dream.
The less there is of you, the more you experience the sublime.
The function of artists is "the mythologization of the world."
Eternity is not future or past. Eternity is a dimension of now.
The person who thinks he has found the ultimate truth is wrong.
The folktale is the primer of the picture-language of the soul.
Man was not breathed into the earth. Man came out of the earth.
The myth is the public dream and the dream is the private myth.
The warrior’s approach is to say ‘yes’ to life: ‘yes’ to it all.
Mythology is the womb of mankind's initiation to life and death.
Nothing is exciting if you know what the outcome is going to be.
If you want to change the world, you have to change the metaphor.
You become mature when you become the authority of your own life.
Your sacred space is where you can find yourself again and again.
Respect your curses, for they are the instruments of your destiny.
It is the function of art to carry us beyond speech to experience.
If you're going to have a story, have a big story, or none at all.
Computers are like Old Testament gods; lots of rules and no mercy.
Any god who can invent hell is no candidate for the Salvation Army
Myths are clues to the spiritual potentialities of the human life.
What you have to do, you do with play. The universe is God’s play.