Freedom is found in the willingness to let go of the things that hold you back.

The journey itself is the destination.

Every moment offers a new possibility of transformation.

The time to act is now. Don’t wait for a better opportunity.

Whatever the hell happens, say, ‘This is what I need.’

The truth is not what you’re told; it’s what you discover.

All the heroes of myth are really reflections of the inner journey we each must make.

Suddenly you’re ripped into being alive. And life is pain, and life is suffering, and life is horror but my God you’re alive and it’s spectacular.

The goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with Nature.

Every religion is true one way or another. It is true when understood metaphorically. But when it gets stuck in its own metaphors, interpreting them as facts, then you are in trouble.

The gods may be laughing at you, but so what?

Mythology is not a matter of fantasy, but rather a matter of meaning.

The dark night of the soul comes just before revelation.

Love is perfect kindness.

I don’t believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive.

The eternal life is the life we are living right now.

Your life is a manifestation of your dreams.

One way or another, we all have to find what best fosters the flowering of our humanity in this contemporary life, and dedicate ourselves to that.

Everything starts with a story.

Is the system going to flatten you out and deny you your humanity, or are you going to be able to make use of the system to the attainment of human purposes?

The responsibility of a hero is to see things as they are, not as they should be.

The world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our senses to become sharper.

We can choose to live in joy.

It is the function of art to carry us beyond speech to experience.

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.

In the process of dying to the old, you create the new.

You know the rule: If you are falling, dive. Do the thing that has to be done.

Participate joyfully in the sorrows of life.

No one in the world was ever you before, with your particular gifts and abilities and possibilities.

Computers are like Old Testament gods; lots of rules and no mercy.

The big question is whether you are going to be able to say a hearty yes to your adventure.

The hero’s journey always begins with the call. One way or another, a guide must come to say, ‘Look, you’re in Sleepy Land. Wake. Come on a trip. There is a whole aspect of your consciousness, your being, that’s not been touched. So you’re at home here? Well, there’s not enough of you there.’ And so it starts.

Your life is the fruit of your own doing; you have no one to blame but yourself.

People forget facts, but they remember stories.

Life is without meaning. You bring the meaning to it. The meaning of life is whatever you ascribe it to be. Being alive is the meaning.

Your sacred space is where you can find yourself again and again.

When we quit thinking primarily about ourselves and our own self-preservation, we undergo a truly heroic transformation of consciousness.

Where you stumble and fall, there you will find gold.

If the path before you is clear, you’re probably on someone else’s.

Myths are public dreams, dreams are private myths.

It’s not what happens to you, it’s how you respond to it that matters.

It is by going down into the abyss that we recover the treasures of life. Where you stumble, there lies your treasure.

Follow your bliss and don’t be afraid.

The world is full of people who have stopped listening to themselves or have listened only to their neighbors to learn what they ought to do, how they ought to behave, and what the values are they should be living for.

A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.

We’re all just walking each other home.

We must be willing to let go of the life we planned so as to have the life that is waiting for us.

Opportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves come when life seems most challenging.

Seek to know the power that is within you.

Love is a friendship set to music.

The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.

The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.

Find a place inside where there’s joy, and the joy will burn out the pain.

Follow your bliss and the universe will open doors where there were only walls.

We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us.