• "The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek."
• “I don't believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive.”
• It has always been the prime function of mythology and rite to supply the symbols that carry the human spirit forward, in counteraction to those constant human fantasies that tend to tie it back.”

“Wherever the poetry of myth is interpreted as biography, history, or science, it is killed.

Mythology, in other words, is psychology misread as biography, history, and cosmology. When a civilization begins to reinterpret its mythology in this way, the life goes out of it, temples become museums, and the link between the two perspectives is dissolved. Such a blight has certainly descended on the Bible and on a great part of the Christian cult.

• To see life as a poem and yourself participating in a poem is what the myth does for you. (By this) I mean a vocubulary not in the form of words, but of acts and adventures, which is connotative (of something transcendent) - of the action here - and which yet informs the whole thing, so you always feel in accord with the universal being.
• Every mythology, every religion is true ... as metaphorical in the cosmic mystery, but when it gets stuck to the metaphor - then you're in trouble.