When you are in accord with nature, nature will yield its bounty. This is something that is coming up in our own consciousness now...recognizi ng that by violating the environment in which we are living, we are really cutting off the energy and source of our own living. And itโs this sense of accord, so that living properly in relation to what has to be done in this world one fosters the vitality of the environment.
Joseph CampbellSo that's what destiny is: simply the fulfillment of the potentialites of the energies in your own system.
Joseph CampbellThe purpose of the journey is compassion. When you have come past the pairs of opposites, you have reached compassion.
Joseph CampbellIt would not be too much to say that myth is the secret opening through which the inexhaustible energies of the cosmos pour into human cultural manifestation. Religions, philosophies, arts, the social forms of primitive and historic man, prime discoveries in science and technology, the very dreams that blister sleep, boil up from the basic, magic ring of myth.
Joseph Campbell