you ever think that it is this absence of the religious experience of ecstasy, of joy, this denial of transcendence in our society, that has turned s… - Joseph Campbell

If you really want to help this world, what you really will have to teach is how to live in it.

The fundamental human experience is that of compassion.

Moyers: Unlike heroes such as Prometheus or Jesus, we're not going on our journey to save the world but to save ourselves. Campbell: But in doing that you save the world. The influence of a vital person vitalizes, there's no doubt about it. The world without spirit is a wasteland. People have the notion of saving the world by shifting things around, changing the rules, and who's on top, and so forth. No, no! Any world is a valid world if it's alive. The thing to do is to bring life to it, and the only way to do that is to find in your own case where the life is and become alive yourself.