It has always been the prime function of mythology and rite to supply the symbols that carry the human spirit forward.
Joseph CampbellAny disaster you can survive is an improvement in your character, your stature, and your life
Joseph CampbellWe need myths that will identify the individual not with his local group but with the planet.
Joseph CampbellBreaking out is following your bliss pattern, quitting the old place, starting your hero journey, following your bliss. You throw off yesterday as the snake sheds its skin.
Joseph CampbellThe inner world is the world of your requirements and your energies and your structure and your possibilities that meets the outer world. And the outer world is the field of your incarnation. Thatโs where you are. Youโve got to keep both going. As Novalis said, โThe seat of the soul is there where the inner and outer worlds meet.
Joseph Campbell