Only when that mortal “you” will have erased everything about itself that it cherishes and is holding to, will “you” have come to the brink of an exp… - Joseph Campbell

Atonement (at-one-ment) consists in no more than the abandonment of the self-generated double monster-the dragon thought to be God (superego) and the dragon thought to be Sin (repressed id). But this requires an abandonment of the attachment to ego itself, and that is what is difficult.

People say that what we're all seeking is a meaning for life. I don't think that's what we're really seeking. I think what we're seeking is an experience of being alive, so that our life experiences on the purely physical plane will have resonance within our own innermost being and reality, so that we actually feel the rapture of being alive. That's what it's all finally about.

the society that cherishes and keeps its myths alive will be nourished from the soundest, richest strata of the human spirit.