We keep hearing about the revolution around us all the time: the revolution, the revolution, the revolution. Revolution doesn’t have to do with smashing something; it has to do with bringing something forth.
If you spend all your time thinking about that which you are attacking, then you are negatively bound to it.
You have to find the zeal in yourself and bring that out. That is what’s given to you — one life to live.
Marx teaches us to blame the society for our frailties; Freud teaches us to blame our parents for our frailties; astrology teaches us to blame the universe.
The only place to look for blame is within; you didn’t have the guts to bring up your full moon and live the life that was your potential…
So, I say the way to find your myth is to find your zeal, to find your support, and to know what stage of life you’re in. The problems of youth are not the problems of age. Don’t try to live your life too soon. By listening too much to gurus, you try to jump over the whole darn thing and back off and become wise before you’ve experienced that in relation to which there is some point to being wise.
This thing, wisdom, has to come gradually…
What is it we are questing for?
It is the fulfillment of that which is potential in each of us. Questing for it is not an ego trip; it is an adventure to bring into fulfillment your gift to the world, which is yourself.
There is nothing you can do that’s more important than being fulfilled. You become a sign, you become a signal, transparent to transcendence; in this way you will find, live, become a realization of your own personal myth.
You can find this passage in Joseph Campbell’s brilliant little book — Pathways to Bliss: Mythology and Personal Transformation
Joseph Campbell was a genius