[T]he experience of mystery comes not from expecting it but through yielding all your programs, because your programs are based on fear and desire. D… - Joseph Campbell

Where you stumble, there lies your treasure. The very cave you are afraid to enter turns out to be the source of what you are looking for. The damned thing in the cave that was so dreaded has become the center.

I always feel uncomfortable when people speak about ordinary mortals because I've never met an ordinary man, woman or child.

Just as anyone who listens to the muse will hear, you can write out of your own intention or out of inspiration. There is such a thing. It comes up and talks. And those who have heard deeply the rhythms and hymns of the gods, can recite those hymns in such a way that the gods will be attracted.