You must give up the life you planned in order to have the life that is waiting for you. - Joseph Campbell

Not all who hesitate are lost. The psyche has many secrets in reserve. And these are not disclosed unless required.

The myths and folktales of the whole world make clear that the refusal is essentially a refusal to give up what one takes to be one's own interest. The future is regarded not in terms of an unremitting series of deaths and births, but as though one's own present system of ideals, virtues, goals, and advantages were to be fixed and made secure.

When you translate the Bible with excessive literalism, you demythologize it. The possibility of a convincing reference to the individual's own spiritual experience is lost. (111)