" Spiritually, however, the center is where is where the sight is. Stand on a height and view the horizon. Stand on the moon and view the whole earth rising..."
-Joseph Campbell
pg. xvii
"I think that what we're seeking is an experience of being alive."
"I don't believe in being interested in a subject because it's said to be important. I believe in being caught by it somehow or other . . . And so, what can it do for you if it does catch you.?"
pg. 3
"We're so engaged in doing things to achieve purposes of outer value that we forget that the inner value, the rapture that is associated with being alive, is what it's all about."
pg. 6
"Where you really see life energy, there's consciousness. Certainly the vegetable world is conscious. And when you live in the woods, as I did as a kid, you can see all these different consciousnesses relating to themselves."
pg. 14
"Now, can I hold something from the cathedral consciousness? Certain prayers or meditations are designed to hold you consciousness on that level instead of letting it drop down here all the way. And then you can finally recognize that this is simply a lower level of that higher consciousness. The mystery that is expressed there is operating in the field of your money, for example. All money is congealed energy."
pg. 14
"One of the Shinto texts say that the processes of nature cannot be evil. Every natural impulse is not to be corrected but to be sublimated, to be beautified. There is a glorious interest in the beauty of nature and cooperation with nature, so that in some of those gardens you don't know where nature begins and art ends— it is a tremendous experience."
pg. 24
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