The more a person knows of himself, the more he will hesitate to define his nature and to assert what he must necessarily feel, and the more he will … - Alan Watts

Thus in using myth one must take care not to confuse image with fact, which would be like climbing up the signpost instead of following the road

Goethe says it in words which, to the modern mind, may be plainer: The highest to which man can attain is wonder; and if the prime phenomenon makes him wonder, let him be content; nothing higher can it give him, and nothing further should he seek for behind it; here is the limit.

Our trouble is that we have ignored and thus feel insecure in the enormous spectrum of love which lies between rather formal friendship and genital sexuality, and thus are always afraid that once we overstep the bounds of formal friendship we must slide inevitably to the extreme of sexual promiscuity.