Refusal - II

I - Departure
    2 - Refusal of the Call






"...the refusal is essentially a refusal to give up what one takes to be one's own interest.  The future is regarded not in terms of an unremitting series of deaths and births, but as though one's present system of ideals, virtues, goals and advantages were to be fixed and made secure."


"...if one is oneself one's god, the God himself, the will of God, the power that would destroy one's egocentric system, becomes a monster....One is harassed, both day and night, by the divine being that is the image of the living self within the locked labyrinth of one's own disoriented psyche.  The ways to the gates have all been lost: there is no exit.  One can only cling, like Satan, furiously to oneself and be in hell; or else break, and be annihilate at last, in God."






Joseph Campbell
The Hero with a Thousand Faces