The senses are a kind of reason. Taste, touch and smell, hearing and seeing, are not merely a means to sensation, enjoyable or otherwise, but they are also a means to knowledge - and are, indeed, your only actual means to knowledge.

So that's what destiny is: simply the fulfillment of the potentialites of the energies in your own system.

The big question is whether you are going to be able to say a hearty yes to your adventure.

Follow your bliss. The heroic life is living the individual adventure.

Now, when Luke Skywalker unmasks his father, he is taking off the machine role that the father has played. The father was the uniform. That is power, the state role.

The achievement of the hero is one that he is ready for and it's really a manifestation of his character. It's amusing the way in which the landscape and conditions of the environment match the readiness of the hero. The adventure that he is ready for is the one that he gets.

No one in the world was ever you before, with your particular gifts and abilities and possibilities.