Whether you call someone a hero or a monster is all relative to where the focus of your consciousness may be.
Joseph CampbellOnce you know the difference between right and wrong, you have lots fewer decisions to make.
Joseph CampbellThe courage to face the trials and to bring a whole new body of possibilities into the field of interpreted experience for other people to experience - that is the hero's deed.
Joseph CampbellThe first step to the knowledge of the wonder and mystery of life is the recognition of the monstrous nature of the earthly human realm as well as its glory, the realization that this is just how it is and that it cannot and will not be changed. Those who think they know how the universe could have been had they created it, without pain, without sorrow, without time, without death, are unfit for illumination.
Joseph Campbell