CAMPBELL: “All life is suffering,” said the Buddha, and Joyce has a line—“Is life worth leaving?” MOYERS: But what about the young person who says, “I didn’t choose to be born—my mother and father made the choice for me.” CAMPBELL: Freud tells us to blame our parents for all the shortcomings of our life, and Marx tells us to blame the upper class of our society. But the only one to blame is oneself. That’s the helpful thing about the Indian idea of karma. Your life is the fruit of your own doing. You have no one to blame but yourself.
