"The ultimate aim of the quest must..." - Quote by Joseph Campbell
The ultimate aim of the quest must be neither release nor ecstasy for oneself, but the wisdom and the power to serve others.
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“...suddenly you hit on something that the student really responds to, you can see the eyes open and the complexion change. The life possibility has opened there. All you can say to yourself is, "I hope this child hangs on to that."”
“You have been thinking one way. Now you have to think a different way.”
“The process of nature cannot be evil.”
More on Purpose
“What can I contribute that will significantly affect the performance and the results of the institution I serve?”
“Man is born a predestined idealist, for he is born to act. To act is to affirm the worth of an end, and to persist in affirming the worth of an end is to make an ideal.”
“However you make your living is where your talent lies.”
More on Quest
“The greatest human quest is to know what one must do in order to become a human being.”
“I only hope that when I am free, as they are free to go in quest, of the knowledge beyond the bounds of life, it may not seem better to me to rest.”
“Then shouldering their burdens, they set off, seeking a path that would bring them over the grey hills of the Emyn Muil, and down into the Land of Shadow.”