“Questing… is not an ego trip; it is an adventure to bring into fulfillment your gift to the world, which is yourself.”

Follow your bliss. The heroic life is living the individual adventure. There is no security in following the call to adventure. Nothing is exciting if you know what the outcome is going to be.

The hero journey is inside of you; tear off the veils and open the mystery of your self.

You become mature when you become the authority of your own life.

Wisdom and foolishness are practically the same. Both are indifferent to the opinions of the world.

And so Galahad decided that it would be a disgrace to set off on a quest with the other knights. Alone he would enter the dark forest where there was no path. This is the myth of The Hero’s Journey.

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

The god you worship is the one you’re capable of becoming.

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

God is a metaphor for that which transcends all levels of intellectual thought. It’s as simple as that.

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

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.

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

Respect your curses, for they are the instruments of your destiny.

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

When you realize that eternity is right here now, that it is within your possibility to experience the eternity of your own truth and being, then you grasp the following: That which you are was never born and will never die. . . . (90)

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

Science is most significant as one of the greatest spiritual adventures that man has yet known.

I am incapable of conceiving infinity, and yet I do not accept finity. I want this adventure that is the context of my life to go on without end.

I don’t go where people are. I go where the people aren’t.

Awaken with me for we only have one life it is too short to not be aligned.

Adventures are all very well in their place, but there’s a lot to be said for regular meals and freedom from pain.

Adventure runs on all sorts of whiskey.

In civilizations without ships, dreams dry up, espionage takes the place of adventure and the police take the place of corsairs.

My appetite for life has returned.