The psychotic drowns in the same waters in which the mystic swims with delight.
Behind all these manifestations is the one radiance, which shines through all things.
Your adventure has to be coming out of your own interior. If you are ready for it then doors will open where there were no doors before, and where there would not be doors for anyone else. And you must have courage. It's the call to adventure, which means there is no security, no rules.
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.
Dragons, you know, we have a good deal of biology and zoology about the dragon; we know their habits. The dragon tends to guard things, and he usually has these guarded in a cave... Now dragons don't know what to do either with beautiful girls or gold, but they just hang on. There are people like this. We call them creeps.
A hero is not a champion of things become, but of things becoming; the dragon to be slain by him is precisely the monster of the status quo.
Anything you do has a still point. When you are in that still point, you can perform maximally.
If you're going to have a story, have a big story, or none at all.
Religon is misunderstood mythology
You have been thinking one way. Now you have to think a different way.
When we follow our bliss, we are met by a thousand unseen helping hands.
The quest for fire occurred not because anyone knew what the practical uses for fire would be, but because it was fascinating.
Participate joyfully in the sorrows of the world. We cannot cure the world of sorrows, but we can choose to live in joy.
The fates lead him who will; him who won't they drag.
I don't have to have faith, I have experience.
This, I believe, is the great Western truth: that each of us is a completely unique creature and that, if we are ever to give any gift to the world, it will have to come out of our own experience and fulfillment of our own potentialities, not someone else's.
Every hero must have the courage to be alone, to take the journey for himself.
The warrior’s approach is to say ‘yes’ to life: ‘yes’ to it all.
The less there is of you, the more you experience the sublime.
If you want resurrection, you must have crucifixion... The hoarder, the one in us that wants to keep, to hold on, must be killed.
What we are really living for is the experience of life, both the pain and the pleasure.
The psychological dangers through which earlier generations were guided by the symbols and spiritual exercises of their mythological and religious inheritance, we today (in so far as we are unbelievers, or, if believers, in so far as our inherited beliefs fail to represent the real problems of contemporary life) must face alone, or, at best with only tentative, impromptu, and not often very effective guidance. This is our problem as modern, "enlightened" individuals, for whom all gods and devils have been rationalized out of existence.
The achievement of the hero is one that he is ready for and it's really a manifestation of his character. It's amusing the way in which the landscape and conditions of the environment match the readiness of the hero. The adventure that he is ready for is the one that he gets.
All we really want to do is dance.
You may have success in life, but then just think of it - what kind of life was it? What good was it - you've never done the thing you wanted to do in all your life. I always tell my students, go where your body and soul want to go. When you have the feeling, then stay with it, and don't let anyone throw you off.
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