God is within you! You yourself are the creator. If you find that place within you from which you brought this thing about, you will be able to live … - Joseph Campbell

These caves are the original men’s rite sanctuaries where the boys became no longer their mothers’ sons but their fathers’ sons.

We're in our own world, and we're in the world that has been given us outside, and the problem is to achieve3 a harmonious relationship between the two. I come into this society, so I've got to live in terms of this society. It's ridiculous not to live in terms of this society because, unless I do, I'm not living. But I mustn't allow this society to dictate to me how I should live. One has to build up one's own system that may violate the expectations of the society, and sometimes society doesn't accept that. But the task of life is to live within the field provided by the society that is really supporting you.

Life is, in its very essence and character, a terrible mystery — this whole business of living by killing and eating. But it is a childish attitude to say no to life with all its pain, to say that this is something that should not have been.