If you want to know what a given society believes in, look at what its largest buildings are devoted to.

The usual hero adventure begins with someone from whom something has been taken, or who feels there is something lacking in the normal experience available or permitted to the members of society. The person then takes off on a series of adventures beyond the ordinary, either to recover what has been lost or to discover some life-giving elixir. It's usually a cycle, a coming and a returning.

The function of the society is to cultivate the individual. It is not the function of the individual to support society.

Both the artist and the lover know that perfection is not loveable. It is the clumsiness of a fault that makes a person lovable.

An old Apache storyteller reminds us

If you follow your bliss...the life that you ought to be living is the one you are living.

This is an important point about symbols: they do not refer to historical events; they refer through historical events to spiritual or psychological principles and powers that are of yesterday, today, and tomorrow, and that are everywhere.