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'.
Joseph CampbellFor we have not even to risk the adventure alone, for the heros of all time have gone before us.
Joseph CampbellWe must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us.
Joseph Campbell