Anything you do has a still point. When you are in that still point, you can perform maximally.

There is no security in following the call to adventure.

For those in whom a local mythology still works, there is an experience both of accord with the social order, and of harmony with the universe. For those, however, in whom the authorized signs no longer work-or, if working, produce deviant effects-there follows inevitably a sense both of dissociation from the local social nexus and of quest, within and without, for life, which the brain will take to be for 'meaning'.

For we have not even to risk the adventure alone, for the heros of all time have gone before us.

We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us.

The myth is the public domain and the dream is the private myth. If your private myth, your dream, happens to coincide with that of the society, you are in good accord with your group. If it isn't, you've got a long adventure in the dark forest ahead of you.

If you really want to help this world, what you will have to teach is how to live in it.