The Power of Myth

No, it’s the present. That cathedral talks to me about the spiritual information of the world. It’s a place for meditation, just walking around, just sitting, just looking at those beautiful things.

the students I meet are very much interested in mythology because myths bring them messages.

You are always doing something that is required of you. Where is your bliss station? You have to try to find it.

He never seemed bothered by the controversy. He just kept on teaching, opening others to a new way of seeing.

for example: I walk off Fifty-first Street and Fifth Avenue into St. Patrick’s Cathedral. I’ve left a very busy city and one of the most economically inspired cities on the planet. I walk into that cathedral, and everything around me speaks of spiritual mysteries. The mystery of the cross, what’s that all about there? The stained glass windows, whi

Novels—great novels—can be wonderfully instructive.

Minotauromachy,

moving out of the sphere of achievement into the sphere of enjoyment and appreciation and relaxing to the wonder of it all.

To a certain extent, you become the carrier of something that is given to you from what have been called the Muses—or, in biblical language, “God.” This is no fancy, it is a fact.

The shaman, for instance, will often have an animal familiar, that is to say, the spirit of some animal species that will be his support and his teacher.