Our life evokes our character. You find out more about yourself as you go on. That’s why it’s good to be able to put yourself in situations that will… - Joseph Campbell

Our life evokes our character and you find out more about yourself as you go on.

The child's world is alert and alive, governed by rules of response and command, not by physical laws: a portentous continuum of consciousness, endowed with purpose and intent, either resistant or responsive to the child itself.

This infantile notion of a world governed by moral rather than physical laws, kept under control by a superordinated parental personality instead of impersonal physical forces, and oriented to the weal and woe of man, is an illusion that dominates men's thoughts all over the world.

The sense then, of this world as an undifferentiated continuum of simultaneously subjective and objective experience (Participation), which is all alive (Animism), and which was created by a superior being (Artificialism), may be said to constitute the frame of reference of all childhood experience no matter where in the world.

No small wonder then, that the above Three Principles are precisely those most represented in the mythologies and religious systems of the whole world.

It's only when a man tames his own demons that he becomes the king of himself if not of the world.

#hero1. “We must be willing to let go of the life we planned so as to have the life that is waiting for us.