The imitation of Christ is the joyful participation in the sorrows of the world. - Joseph Campbell

CAMPBELL: I think of mythology as the homeland of the muses, the inspirers of art, the inspirers of poetry. To see life as a poem and yourself participating in a poem is what the myth does for you.

When you realize that eternity is right here now, that it is within your possibility to experience the eternity of your own truth and being, then you grasp the following: That which you are was never born and will never die. . . . (90)

The ultimate aim of the quest must be neither release nor ecstasy for oneself, but the wisdom and the power to serve others.