Ira Wing

“It has always been the prime function of mythology and rite to supply the symbols that carry the human spirit forward, in counteraction to those that tend to tie it back.”
― Joseph Campbell, The Hero with a Thousand Faces

“Mythology, in other words, is psychology misread as biography, history, and cosmology.”
― Joseph Campbell, The Hero with a Thousand Faces

“Instead of clearing his own heart the zealot tries to clear the world.”
― Joseph Campbell, Hero With a Thousand Faces

“Regrets are illuminations come too late.”
― Joseph Campbell, The Hero with a Thousand Faces