How to get rid of ego as dictator and turn it into messenger and servant and scout, to be in your service, is the trick. - Joseph Campbell

When you realize that eternity is right here now, that it is within your possibility to experience the eternity of your own truth and being, then you grasp the following: That which you are was never born and will never die. . . . (90)

The very cave you are afraid to enter turns out to be the source of what you are looking for.

Perhaps some of us have to go through dark and devious ways before we can find the river of peace or the highroad to the soul's destination.