People often think of the Goddess as a fertility deity only. Not at all — she’s the muse. She’s the inspirer of poetry. She’s the inspirer of the spi… - Joseph Campbell

Oriental idea: you don’t teach until you are asked. You don’t force your mission down people’s throats.) And so the boy

Clearly, mythology is no toy for children. Nor is it a matter of archaic, merely scholarly concern, of no moment to modern men of action. For its symbols (whether in the tangible form of images or in the abstract form of ideas) touch and release the deepest centers of motivation, moving literate and illiterate alike, moving mobs, moving civilizations.

Mythology opens the world so that it becomes transparent to something that is beyond speech, beyond words — in short, what we call transcendence. Without that you don’t have a mythology. Any system of thinking, ideologies of one kind or another, that does not open to transcendence cannot be classified or understood mythologically.