There is no way you can use the word โrealityโ without quotation marks around it.
Joseph CampbellThe Navajo have that wonderful image of what they call the pollen path. The Navajo say, 'Oh, beauty before me, beauty behind me, beauty to the right of me, beauty to the left of me, beauty above me, beauty below me, I'm on the pollen path.'
Joseph CampbellSo that's what destiny is: simply the fulfillment of the potentialites of the energies in your own system.
Joseph CampbellFor 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 Campbell