“Myth is the system of basic metaphors, images, and stories that in-forms the perceptions, memories, and aspirations of a people; provides the rationale for its institutions, rituals and power structure; and gives a map of the purpose and stages of life.”

Source: Semiology of graphics (1967/83), p. 2

Isha Insights Magazine, Spring Edition 2009
Sourced from newspapers and magazines
Context: The basic purpose of life and the basic purpose of education is to enhance one’s boundaries of perception. I don’t want the children to just survive after ten years of schooling here. They must blossom and flower wherever they go. -Sadhguru (on Isha Vidhya rural education project)

Man and Space - Mensch und Raum 2005

Source: The Courage to Create (1975), Ch. 5 : The Delphic Oracle as Therapist, p. 99
Context: The self is made up, on its growing edge, of the models, forms, metaphors, myths, and all other kinds of psychic content which give it direction in its self-creation. This is a process that goes on continuously. As Kierkegaard well said, the self is only that which it is in the process of becoming. Despite the obvious determinism in human life — especially in the physical aspect of ones self in such simple things as color of eyes, height relative length of life, and so on — there is also, clearly, this element of self-directing, self-forming. Thinking and self-creating are inseparable. When we become aware of all the fantasies in which we see ourselves in the future, pilot ourselves this way or that, this becomes obvious.

Selected Writings—Poetry and Criticism. (1964).
Other Quotes

Source: Specification of Digital Systems (1978), p. 29

Source: A Theory of Justice (1971; 1975; 1999), Chapter II, Section 10, pg. 58

Balzac's Garret, p. 88
Waiting For The Barbarians (1997)