I think of compassion as the fundamental religious experience and, unless that is there, you have nothing.
A hero ventures forth from the world of common day into a region of supernatural wonder. Fabulous forces are there encountered and a decisive victory is won.
The myth is the public dream and the dream is the private myth.
Religon is misunderstood mythology
The last act in the biography of the hero is that of the death or departure.
For we have not even to risk the adventure alone, for the heros of all time have gone before us.