Pathways to Bliss: Mythology and Personal Transformation (The Collected Works of Joseph Campbell)

by Joseph Campbell

The question of truth doesn’t matter here. Nietzsche says that the worst point you can present to a person of faith is truth. Is it true? Who cares? In the sphere of mythological imagery, the point is, I like it this way; this is the source of my life.

if you want to increase life, then you must increase death!

The woman’s problem is exactly the reverse: she suffers the fate of Electra,

The person who is torn between attitudes of dependency and responsibility is neurotic; he is ambivalent, he is pulled in two directions. Until he can face a challenge without running back to his parents internally, he can never be a true adult.

Ego is a function that relates you to reality in terms of your personal judgment—not the judgments that you have been taught to make but the judgments that you do make.

Oriental religious instruction tells one to cancel ego.