When you don't have a job (requiring reading) and you are doing your own reading you've got deep psychological questions. As deep as those of a littl… - Joseph Campbell

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 so many young people to the use of drugs?

There is no make-believe about heaven, future bliss, and compensation, to alleviate the bitter majesty, but only utter darkness, the void of unfulfillment, to receive and eat back the lives that have been tossed forth from the womb only to fail.

It is, indeed, very little that we need! But lacking that, the adventure into the labyrinth is without hope.