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

It is only when a man tames his own demons that he becomes the king of himself if not of the world.

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 that tend to tie it back.

The hero, the waker of his own soul, is himself but the convenient means of his own dissolution.

Humor is the touchstone of the truly mythological as distinct from the more literal-minded and sentimental theological mood.

For the bliss of the deep abode is not lightly abandoned in favor of the self-scattering of the wakened state,

Only birth can conquer death—the birth, not of the old thing again, but of something new .

If the flesh says that you should stop, then you must move forward

Without confession, there is no remission of sins.

Scratch a dog and you'll find a permanent job.

Real fulfillment, for the man who allows absolutely free rein to his desires, and who much dominate everything, lies in hatred.

When you wake up in the morning, you must really wake up totally-physically and mentally. Otherwise, don't bother with the day.

Here and now...breathe and relax...in battle and in life

I'm living in the present. I have no ambition. It's true. But I want to live.

I'm still trying to find the perfect Nirvana song that's an example of that, but you do hear a lot of their songs start with an extremely emotional death grunts.

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