#456: The Power of Myth — The Hero’s Adventure with Joseph Campbell and Bill Moyers

Nirvana is a psychological state of mind ... It's the condition that comes when you are not held by desire or by fear or by social commitments—when you hold your center and act out of there.

I think it's important to live life with a knowledge of its mystery and of your own mystery. It gives life a new zest, a new balance, a new harmony to do this. It's psychological therapy when people find out what it is that's ticking in them.

I have a feeling that consciousness and energy are the same thing somehow—where you really see energy, there's consciousness.

A hero, properly, is someone who has given his life to something bigger than himself or other than himself.

Psychologically, the dragon is the binding of oneself to one's ego, and you're captured in your own dragon cage. The power of the psychiatrist is to break that dragon [and] open him up so that you can have a larger field of relationships.

Our life evokes our character, and you find out more about yourself as you go on, and it's very nice to be able to put yourself in situations that will evoke your higher nature rather than your lower.