Read myths. They teach you that you can turn inward, and you begin to get the message of the symbols. Read other people's myths, not those of your own religion, because you tend to interpret your own religion in terms of facts -- but if you read the other ones, you begin to get the message.
Joseph CampbellIt is not society which is to guide and save the creative hero, but precisely the reverse.
Joseph CampbellHe must put aside his pride, his virtue, beauty and life and bow or submit to the absolutely intolerable.
Joseph CampbellEnlarge the pupil of the eye, so that the body with its attendant personality will no longer obstruct the view. Immortality is then experienced as a present fact.
Joseph CampbellLife lives on life. This is the sense of the symbol of the Ouroboros, the serpent biting its tail. Everything that lives lives on the death of something else. Your own body will be food for something else. Anyone who denies this, anyone who holds back, is out of order. Death is an act of giving.
Joseph Campbell