Andrew Markowitz

“The journey of the hero is about the courage to seek the depths; the image of creative rebirth; the eternal cycle of change within us; the uncanny discovery that the seeker is the mystery which the seeker seeks to know. The hero journey is a symbol that binds, in the original sense of the word, two distant ideas, the spiritual quest of the ancients with the modern search for identity, “always the one, shape-shifting yet marvelously constant story that we find.”
― Joseph Campbell, The Hero’s Journey: Joseph Campbell on His Life and Work

“In the absence of an effective general mythology, each of us has his private, unrecognized, rudimentary, yet secretly potent pantheon of dream.”
― Joseph Campbell, The Hero with a Thousand Faces

“If a bird believes it is an eagle long enough, it will eventually end up soaring like one.”
― Matshona Dhliwayo

“Whole branches of Judaism may wither and fall, but the trunk remains,”
― Theodor Herzl, A Jewish State, an Attempt at a Modern Solution of the Jewish Question